# Tableau Prep in the Apple VisionPro

> 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:** 2024-08-21
- **Format:** Video · 7 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data prep, Tool strategy, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, prep)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-prep-in-the-apple-visionpro
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnuxs-7N-RE

I demo Tableau Prep running in a browser inside the Apple Vision Pro, walking through the headset's pinch and zoom gestures before building a flow with cleaning, pivot, generate-rows and union steps. I show what works well, where the spatial experience shines, and the interaction bugs I've hit so far after about three weeks with the device.

## Key takeaways

- The Vision Pro's single-finger pinch acts as a click and a two-handed pinch zooms in for very sharp text, picked up intuitively without instructions
- Running Tableau Prep in the headset makes the flow feel physically present and far larger than a 4K monitor, so you can walk up to and around individual steps
- Dragging fields in Tableau Prep can be buggy in the Vision Pro browser, often selecting and scrolling at once; refreshing the page recontextualises the session
- For the pivot tool, tapping a field then dragging it into the box works more reliably than dragging directly
- Prep runs fast in the Vision Pro browser, and steps like cleaning, reordering columns, pivots, generated rows and unions all build successfully

## Chapters

- 0:03 Vision Pro gestures and interface
- 1:30 Launching Tableau Prep in the room
- 2:43 Connecting data and interaction bugs
- 4:35 Pivot, generate rows and union
- 6:15 First impressions and what's next

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-prep-in-the-apple-visionpro

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