What you'll learn
MotherDuck Dives let you build interactive data applications on top of your data warehouse without a separate frontend framework. This session walks through the full workflow, from querying data to publishing a shareable app.
What are Dives?
Dives are MotherDuck's built-in tool for creating interactive data apps. Instead of exporting query results to a separate BI tool, you write React components that pull data directly from your MotherDuck databases. The result is a live app your team can use without waiting on data engineering to hand something off.
Building your first Dive
The session covers how to get started: writing SQL queries in MotherDuck, wrapping results in React components, adding filters, drill-downs, and parameter controls. If you've used tools like Evidence or Streamlit, Dives will feel familiar, but everything runs inside MotherDuck itself.
Going beyond dashboards
Dives get more interesting once you move past standard charts. You can build calculators, data entry forms, custom reporting tools, internal apps that pull from multiple data sources. The talk shows real examples, like a customer health scoring tool and an operational monitoring setup, all backed by live SQL queries against your data warehouse.
Sharing and collaboration
Every Dive gets a shareable URL. You can publish them to your team, embed them, or keep them private for your own analysis. The session covers how sharing works and how to manage access for different audiences.
