Use Auto Insights to Get Immediate Insights Into Your Data

When you upload a dataset to Oracle Analytics, Auto Insights compute interesting insights on the data.

Click Auto Insights in the top right corner of the Visualize page Auto Insights icon (white means processing, yellow means ready). (it turns from white to yellow when insights are ready) and scroll through the panel for a list of ranked insights. The artificial intelligence engine that generates these insights is focused on finding the columns with the most appropriate data for interesting insights, and on how to apply advanced analytics techniques to those columns.
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The list of insights shown varies based on the following information:
  • Which types of columns are present in your dataset (for example, how many dimensions, how many dates, how many metrics)
  • Which data is present in each of the columns (for example, what are the cardinalities of dimensions, their sparsity, distribution)
For example, if there are no date columns in your data, then there won't be any insights about trending or seasonality.

As you scroll down the panel of insights, visualizations are rendered with an overall text description to help you understand what the insight is about, how to read it, and why it qualifies to display in this panel. Typically, insights that show a high contrast in values (for example, crossing line trends, high variations in bars, spread in scatter plots) will rank higher in the panel. You can drag any of these insights onto your workbook canvas by clicking the Plus icon on any visualization, or by double-clicking the visualization itself.

Once the visualizations you selected are on the canvas, they behave exactly as if you manually designed them from scratch. Any viewer can fully interact with any of these visualizations (for example, keep selected, use as filters), or even customize them further by replacing formats and columns or editing calculations. Any custom calculations required to support the insights you dragged onto your canvas are automatically added under the My Calculations folder. You can review these calculations to understand their formulas and modify them further.