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Ask about your district. Get an answer you can cite.
Plain-English questions about your region’s data, answered inside Claude from real Data n Dashboards datasets — with the source, the year and the unit attached to every figure.
Economy — NZ$ millions, 2024. Grey districts have no figure in this view.
250+
datasets across the data lake
13
national themes covered
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datasets free to query today
Inside Claude
Every answer comes with its receipt.
Claude does the asking, reading and writing. Community Pulse gives it one approved data source to query — under your own sign-in, not the open internet and not its own memory.
The source and the period
Which dataset answered, and for which year or month.
The unit and the fine print
Filled jobs or dollars, a partial year, a matched place name — whatever changes how you’d read the number.
Nothing to quietly get wrong
Every figure is a structured query against a live extract. There is no free-text query path.
Presentation-ready, on request
Ask Claude to turn the same sourced figures into a Word report or PowerPoint deck — no manual copy-pasting from a dashboard.
Claude · Community Pulse
Which industries employ the most people in the Waikato region? Show me a chart.
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Manufacturing is the largest, with 24,800 filled jobs across the Waikato Region.
Filled jobs by industryWaikato Region · top 5
Manufacturing
24,800
Health care
22,300
Retail trade
18,900
Construction
17,600
Education
14,200
Matched to Waikato Region, not Waikato District — say so if you meant the district instead.
Source: Employment by IndustryUnit: filled jobsPeriod: year to Feb 2025
Illustrative example — the figures shown are for demonstration.
How it works
Ask a question, get a checkable answer.
No special syntax and nothing to configure — the careful part happens before you see a number.
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Ask in plain English
A region, a district, an industry, a year — no official field names required.
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Matched, not guessed
Your wording is resolved against values that exist in the data. An ambiguous match is flagged, never silently picked.
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A structured query runs
The same validated request every time, against the live extract — never free text.
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The answer, with context
The query that ran, the unit, the period, and any caveat you’d need before it goes in a report.
Try one of these
Click to copy, then paste it into Claude.
How many people work in manufacturing in the Waikato region?
Has GDP grown faster in Hamilton City, or the region as a whole?
Where are road crashes most concentrated on our network?
Is recorded crime up or down in our district this year?
Compare jobs and GDP between Tauranga and Hamilton.
Show me filled jobs by district on a map.
The data
Drawn from 250+ datasets, across 13 national themes.
They’re the part of the data lake’s 800+ datasets that has passed this connector’s grounding and caveat checks, and more join over time. Need something that isn’t here yet? Tell us what you’re after.
Population & DemographicsEconomy & National AccountsLabour Market & BusinessIncome, Living Standards & EquityHousing & Built EnvironmentHealth & WellbeingEducation & SkillsTransport & InfrastructureEnvironment, Climate & EnergySociety & CommunitiesTourism & International TravelGovernance & Public SectorLocal Government Elections
Free comes with 3 datasets — Population data, GIS boundaries and the Deprivation Index, each at SA2 level, no card needed. Community Pulse Connector — Standard unlocks every one of the 250+, covering territorial authority and regional statistics right down to small local areas. In Claude, ask “What can I ask?” to see exactly what’s on your plan right now.
Every question is checked against values that exist in your data and validated before it runs — then checked again, so a hidden regional total or a filter that didn’t apply is caught before you see it.
There is no write path back to Tableau — not behind a flag, not for an administrator.
Signed in as you
Everyone on your team signs up with their own account — never a shared password.
“I don’t know” beats a guess
A result that can’t be confirmed against your data is withheld, not handed over with small print.
Every figure is traceable
The query that ran, the unit, the place and the period — so a number you quote in public can be checked.
Minimal by design
Sign-up asks only for what an account needs. No tracking or advertising cookies on this connector.
Your questions stay yours
We log which tool ran and which dataset it touched — never the words of your question or Claude’s answer.
The data behind every answer is published New Zealand regional statistics — aggregate figures, not personal information about identifiable people. Account information is handled the way the Privacy Act 2020 expects. Full detail in the privacy policy.
For your IT team: seven purpose-built tools, all read-only. Only one of them ever returns a number, and there is no free-text query tool at all. See the documentation.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you need more.
Choose the plan that fits your team — start free with access to core datasets, and upgrade to Standard for full access to Community Pulse Connector.
Free
NZ$0no card needed
For trying it with your team — 3 datasets included.
No. Community Pulse is a plain-English front door onto published datasets — not a replacement for your dashboards, GIS layers or wider BI stack. For deep exploration or mapping work, your existing tools stay the right tool.
It says so, plainly, instead of estimating. A period outside the data’s coverage, a rate the data can’t support, or a place name it can’t resolve uniquely all come back as a stated refusal with the reason — never a real-looking number that happens to be wrong.
Read-only Tableau extracts for the datasets listed on this site — nothing else in your environment. Access sits behind individual sign-in, so it’s clear who did what.
No. There is no write path back to Tableau or any other system — not behind a setting, not for an administrator.
No. We don’t log the content of your questions or Claude’s answers — only which tool ran, which dataset it touched, and whether it succeeded. See the privacy policy.
The Free plan costs nothing and needs no card, with 3 datasets included. Community Pulse Connector — Standard is NZ$2,400 a year paid upfront (save 20%), or NZ$250 a month on a 12-month commitment. You can upgrade from your account at any time.
Yes, by design. Each person signs up individually, so every query is attributable to a real account rather than a password passed around the office.
Get started
Add the connector in about a minute.
Nothing to install and no IT ticket — one link, one sign-in, and every question after that is answered from real data.
Your connector link
https://ai.datandashboards.com/mcp
Paste it exactly as shown — nothing before or after /mcp. An extra slash is the usual reason a connector won’t add.
Prefer to read it through first?
The full guide covers the same five steps in more detail, plus what to do when something doesn’t work.
In Claude, go to Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector.
Settings›Connectors›Add custom connector
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Paste the link and name it
“Community Pulse” is fine. Leave every OAuth field — Client ID and Client Secret — blank: Claude registers the connection itself, so there’s nothing correct to put in them.
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Turn it on for your chat
Some clients enable a new connector automatically; others need it switched on from the + menu inside the conversation. Check there first if a question doesn’t seem to reach it.
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Sign in with your own account
The first question sends you to this site’s sign-in page, separate from your Claude account. Everyone on your team gets their own — new accounts start on the Free plan, no card required.
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Ask a real question
Try one from Try one of these, or ask about your own district. A working answer names the dataset and period it came from.