Build Views and Explore Data with Tableau Agent

Supported in Tableau Desktop version 2025.1 and later.

Tableau Agent is a generative AI feature available in Tableau Desktop and Tableau Cloud Web Authoring. With Tableau Agent, explore your data, create visualizations, create and explain calculations, and uncover insights with the help of a conversational assistant.

Connect to a workbook or data source and use natural language to perform visual analysis. Use Tableau Agent and the Tableau UI together to get to insights faster. With Tableau Agent, staring at a blank canvas becomes a thing of the past.

Tableau Desktop worksheet showing Tableau Agent welcome screen.

Tableau Agent can help with tasks like:

  • Jumpstart your analysis: Tableau Agent can suggest analytical questions based on your data
  • Build a viz: "How many action movies did each director make?"
  • Choose the best chart type for an analysis: "Show me the distribution of student's grades"
  • Perform time series analysis: "What month had the largest growth in number of donors compared to the previous month?"
  • Create calculated fields: "Create a field that calculates the difference between case open and closed dates and round up to weeks"
  • Explain calculations: "Explain the "Days to Ship Actual" calculation"
  • Filter and sort data: "Only look at Saltwater and show me the fish with the smallest tank options"

Tableau Agent and Trust

Tableau Agent is built on top of the Einstein Trust Layer(Link opens in a new window) and inherits all of its security, governance, and Trust capabilities. As you interact with Tableau Agent, neither your data nor your conversations that are sent to the Large Language Model (LLM) are saved to the LLM, and no customer data is ever used to train the model. For more information about AI in Tableau, the Einstein Trust Layer, see AI in Tableau(Link opens in a new window).

Note: When you use generative AI features in Tableau, it consumes Einstein Requests and possibly Data Cloud credits. For more information, see AI in Tableau Usage(Link opens in a new window).

Get started with Tableau Agent

You can launch Tableau Agent by selecting the Agent icon Tableau Agent icon in the toolbar next to Show Me or from the top bar in the Calculation editor.

The icon will only show or be active if the following conditions are met:

  • You have an active internet connection and are signed in(Link opens in a new window) to a Tableau Cloud site with Tableau+ and AI in Tableau turned on. For more information, see Turn on AI in Tableau for Your Site(Link opens in a new window).

    • If you don't have a Tableau Cloud site with Tableau+, but want to try Tableau Agent features, you can sign up for a Tableau Cloud free trial, which includes Tableau Agent features. To start your trial, fill out this form, or contact your Account Executive.

  • You are on a worksheet tab and connected to a data source. Tableau Agent is not yet available for dashboards and stories.

Tableau Agent is recommended for use on data extract or file-based data for improved performance, but Tableau Agent also works with live connections, or uploaded files with .hyper, .csv, .txt, and .xlsx file types. Cubes are not currently supported.

To learn more about what Tableau Agent can do and how to get the best results, see Explore Your Data with Tableau Agent(Link opens in a new window) and Tableau Agent FAQ(Link opens in a new window).