# Tableau Agent Now Writes Dashboard Narratives for You #Tableau #TableauAI #TableauAgen

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2026-02-15
- **Format:** Short · 1 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, AI & ML, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (ai, cloud, dashboards)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-agent-now-writes-dashboard-narratives-for-you-tableau-tableauai-tableauagen
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjXG46RAahw

I walk through the new Tableau Agent Dashboard Narratives beta, a capability that generates written explanations of your dashboard data in a side panel. I cover the licensing requirements, how it runs in Tableau Cloud, and how it relates to earlier features like Explain Data and Stories.

## Key takeaways

- Dashboard Narratives requires Tableau AI enabled, which needs a top-tier SKU or licence connecting to Tableau AI capabilities
- The feature runs inside Tableau Cloud and works in web authoring, not Tableau Server, at least for now
- Narratives appear in a side panel to explain what is happening in your dashboard data
- This builds on earlier efforts like Explain Data and the Narrative Science acquisition, with Stories possibly being quietly deprecated

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-agent-now-writes-dashboard-narratives-for-you-tableau-tableauai-tableauagen

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