Incorporating data visualizations into database conversational interfaces

A method incorporates data visualization into conversational interfaces. The method receives a user input specifying a natural language command via a conversational interface. The method analyzes the natural language command to determine the type of question. The method also obtains a user preference for viewing responses based on text and/or visualizations. When the user preference includes visualizations and the type of question is answerable using data visualizations, the method: (i) extracts one or more independent analytic phrases from the natural language command; (ii) queries a database using a set of queries based on the extracted analytic phrases, thereby retrieving a data set; and (iii) generates and displays, in the conversational interface, a response incorporating one or more data visualizations, based on the type of question, using the data set.