Converse with Your Data (Beta)
- For a dashboard, click to open the conversations panel. (For a lens, the conversations text entry box is always open.)
- Click in the text entry box.
- Select a suggestion, or type your own question.
- (Optional) When you have the chart that answers your question, click an action icon or the dropdown menu in the upper right corner. Available actions, such as clip, explore, save, and share, depend on the context.How does it work? The conversational auto-suggestions are based on fields in the available datasets. To see which datasets are open for conversational exploration, look for the purple hexagons (). For a lens, clickFields to view the available fields to ask about. For a dashboard, if the suggestions don’t include the words you expect, click Add Dataset to expand your exploration. What kinds of questions can you ask? Question are built withmeasures and dimensions from your data combined with keywords, such as “show me” and “by.”Typically, measures are aggregated and dimensions are grouped to show meaningful information.Filters are applied to narrow the focus of the question.Example Conversational QueriesAggregations and LimitsMeasuresDimensionsFilterstop 3 account owner averageCSAT this week (Created Date)bottom 5amountby account owner and stagefor closed equals (true) unit price and shipping costby product familybetween 10000 and 100000 show me industryagent and case origin percentage change by segmentprevious cy (Close Date) revenue, csat by agent, state, product percentage breakdown ofamountby opportunity name ranknumber of recordsby industry for industry equals (Agriculture, Biotechnology, Communications)maxnumber for account type contains (cust) and amount > 10000What if my question doesn’t include a measure? When no measure isspecified, the response is aggregated by count of rows.What if I don’t get a chart? Sometimes your question isn’t phrased properly and you see a red error message. Inthat case, try using the auto-suggestions to help rephrase your question. Sometimes you’veasked a valid question but no results are returned. Try a wider filter or a different group.For more about what to type, see the following tables.