InstantSights

InstantSights provides Natural Language Generation (NLG) capabilities on your data in Knowi by providing insights in plain English. This is available on widgets on any dashboard if the feature is turned on.

Activate InstantSights:

Navigate to user settings, scroll down to the customer settings section, and click on the Enable button against the Instant Sights to activate NLG.

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View Insights

Upon activating the Insight feature, all the widgets within the dashboard will start reflecting the "Insights" button denoted using the bulb icon. Click on the insights button and the automated text-based insights (summary) for the particular widget shall be generated in plain English for you to analyze.

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Four different types of insights are generated for every widget as summarized in the table below:

Insight Type Category Interpretation
Anomaly
Anomaly by Date This calculates and returns any anomaly detected for the data by date
Anomaly by Group This calculates and returns any anomaly detected for the data by the group
Anomaly Growth by Date This calculates and returns any anomaly detected for the growth by date
Anomaly Growth by Group This calculates and returns any anomaly detected for the growth by the group
Growth
Latest Growth by Date This shows the latest growth summary information
Latest Growth by Group This shows the latest growth summary information
Top Growth by Date This shows where the growth of numeric value is highest by date
Top Growth by Group This shows where the growth of numeric value is highest by group
Prediction
Prediction by Date This predicts the next data point by date
Prediction by Group This predicts the next data point by a group
Summary
Summary This shows the summary of the data
Max Summary This shows max summary information

Insights Settings

Configure the insight settings for any of the widgets in the dashboard to manage the type of insights you want to receive whenever this feature is used.

Generate the insights for any of the widgets and click on the settings icon on the top to start configuring the Insights. You can configure every insight type individually for all the categories i.e. Anomaly, Growth, Prediction and Summary by group and date.

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Or use the AI Picker to configure the insights automatically for each category.

AI Picker: Configures insights with the help of AI. By default, insights are generated for all attributes in each category, which might be unnecessary. However, AI Picker selects only the ones that are important to generate Insights.

To use the AI Picker:

  1. Click on Instant Insights (bulb icon) on any widget on your dashboard.

  2. Click AI Picker and then Save Changes.

  3. Users can now see the Instant Insights for the widget with the categories AI Picker selected.

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Important Notes:

  1. By default, insights are automatically generated based on your data, but may be limited. You can customize it using the settings gear icon to access insight settings.

  2. For each insight settings type, you can further tweak the settings for each setting based on the type of data being represented by the widget.

  3. If InstantSights is disabled from the Team settings, then icon will not be shown.

InstantSights On/Off by Default

You are provided with an additional option to set InstantSights On or Off by default.

Note: InstantSights must be enabled for this setting to appear.

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If this setting is turned ON; then the InstantSights feature will stay activated by default for all the widgets in the new dashboards (newly created after this "Default" option is set on).

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However, you can check the option- "Apply to all existing dashboard" to apply this default setting to all the existing dashboards and apply the default to all future dashboards as well.

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When InstantSights is enabled on every dashboard, you can then manually disable it for certain dashboards through Dashboard settings.

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If this setting is turned OFF, then the InstantSights feature will stay disabled by default for all the widgets in the new dashboards (newly created after this "Default" option was set on) unless you enable it manually for any particular dashboard through dashboard settings.

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However, you can check the option- "Apply to all existing dashboard" to apply this default setting to all the existing dashboards and apply the default to all future dashboards as well.

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Configure Insight

You can customise each insight type/option from the "configure Insight" settings by providing the values in the required fields respectively.

Anomaly By Date

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Field Interpretation
Algorithm Forecasting algorithm
Threshold Anomaly detection threshold
Lookback Lookback periods
Date Date/Time series attribute of your data
Metric The numeric forecasted attribute of your data
Result Limit Result Limit

Anomaly By Group

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Field Interpretation
Algorithm Forecasting algorithm
Threshold Anomaly detection threshold
Lookback Lookback periods
Date Date/Time series attribute of your data
Metric The numeric forecasted attribute of your data
Dimension Grouping attribute of your data
Result Limit Result limit

Anomaly Growth By Date

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Field Interpretation
Algorithm Forecasting algorithm
Threshold Anomaly detection threshold
Lookback Lookback periods
Date Date/Time series attribute of your data
Metric The numeric forecasted attribute of your data
Result Limit Result Limit

Anomaly Growth By Group

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Field Interpretation
Algorithm Forecasting algorithm
Threshold Anomaly detection threshold
Lookback Lookback periods
Date Date/Time series attribute of your data
Metric The numeric forecasted attribute of your data
Dimension Grouping attribute of your data
Result Limit Result Limit

Latest Growth By Date

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Field Interpretation
Metric The numeric forecasted attribute of your data
Date Date/Time series attribute of your data
Frequency Time-frequency to compute growth for
Result Limit Result Limit

Latest Growth By Group

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Field Interpretation
Dimension Grouping attribute of your data
Metric The numeric forecasted attribute of your data
Date Date/Time series attribute of your data
Frequency Time-frequency to compute growth for
Result Limit Result Limit

Top Growth By Date

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Field Interpretation
Metric The numeric forecasted attribute of your data
Date Date/Time series attribute of your data
Result Limit Result Limit

Top Growth By Group

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Field Interpretation
Dimension Grouping attribute of your data
Metric The numeric forecasted attribute of your data
Date Date/Time series attribute of your data
Result Limit Result Limit

Prediction By Date

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Field Interpretation
Metric The numeric forecasted attribute of your data
Date Date/Time series attribute of your data
Prediction Date Prediction date
Frequency Time-frequency to compute growth for
Algorithm Forecasting algorithm

Prediction By Group

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Field Interpretation
Dimension Grouping attribute of your data
Metric The numeric forecasted attribute of your data
Date Date/Time series attribute of your data
Prediction Date Prediction date
Frequency Time-frequency to compute growth for
Algorithm Forecasting algorithm
Result Limit Result Limit

Summary

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Field Interpretation
Metric The numeric forecasted attribute of your data
Result Limit Result Limit

Max Summary

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Field Interpretation
Metric The numeric forecasted attribute of your data
Date Date/Time series attribute of your data
Dimension Grouping attribute of your data