# Google AI Studio Teaching Tableau: Building a Tableau Dashboard with AI Assistance

> 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:** 2025-01-24
- **Format:** Video · 29 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** AI & ML, Data visualisation, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (dashboards, filters, formatting, reference lines, relationships, tree maps, web authoring)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/google-ai-studio-teaching-tableau-building-a-tableau-dashboard-with-ai-assistance
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtACPEqVZ6A

I use Google AI Studio's live screen-share and voice mode to build a Tableau Public dashboard from scratch, posing as a complete beginner. The AI guides me through uploading data, building a bar chart and tree map, and creating an interactive dashboard, mistakes and all, before I reflect on what this means for learning data tools.

## Key takeaways

- Google AI Studio lets you screen-share and talk to the AI in real time, with no text box, so it can react to what's actually on your Tableau screen rather than assuming a generic interface.
- The AI walked a new user from the Tableau Public landing page through web authoring, data upload, relationships, a bar chart with a per-pane average reference line, and currency formatting.
- It struggled to build a tree map by trial and error, eventually landing on Square marks with category on colour and sales on size and label.
- For dashboard interactivity it knew about filter actions but initially missed the 'run on select' setting and the quicker 'use as filter' shortcut.
- Sessions time out frequently, but the AI is good at picking up where it left off after you restart and re-share your screen.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Why live AI assistance matters
- 1:53 Setting up Google AI Studio screen share
- 4:01 Uploading data and relationships
- 6:58 Building a bar chart with an average line
- 12:21 Trial and error building a tree map
- 19:27 Creating an interactive dashboard
- 23:19 Teaching the AI back
- 25:05 Final reflections on the experience

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/google-ai-studio-teaching-tableau-building-a-tableau-dashboard-with-ai-assistance

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