Panel vs Tableau

Panel is a free, open-source Python library from the HoloViz project for building interactive dashboards and data apps. You can turn a Jupyter notebook or a Python script into a web app with widgets, charts and layouts, without writing any JavaScript.

Panel works with the libraries data scientists already use, including pandas, Bokeh, Matplotlib, Plotly, hvPlot and more, and runs in notebooks, on a server or even entirely in the browser via WebAssembly. It also includes chat components for building interfaces on top of large language models, which makes it a good choice for internal AI tools and prototypes.

Good fit if you: work in Python and want to share analyses, models or AI tools as i…

Tableau, part of Salesforce, is one of the world's leading business intelligence and data visualisation platforms. It lets people connect to almost any data source and explore it visually with drag-and-drop charts, dashboards and maps, without needing to code.

Tableau's AI features help more people use data: Tableau Pulse delivers personalised metrics and plain-language insights to business users, and Tableau's AI agent helps analysts prepare data, build visualisations and explain findings using natural language. Dashboards can be shared across an organisation through Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server, with governance and security for large companies. Tableau Public is a free version for publ…