Before you Begin

This 10-minute tutorial shows you how to create a language narrative visualization.

Background

A language narrative visualization creates natural language descriptions of the data contained in a visualization and generates related insights.

You can use a language narrative visualization with the following combinations:

• Two attributes and one measure
• One attribute and two measures

Oracle Analytics provides three natural language tones, Factual, Casual, or Business, that you can use in your language narrative visualizations. If the Oracle Analytics Gen AI service isn't enabled, your language narrative visualization uses the default Factual tone.

Contact your administrator about enabling Oracle Analytics Gen AI service.

What Do You Need?

• Access to Oracle Analytics Cloud or Oracle Analytics Desktop
• Download donation2024.xlsx to your computer

Create a Dataset

1. Sign in to Oracle Analytics.
2. On the Home page, click Create, and then click Dataset. In Create Dataset, click Drop data file here or click to browse, select the donation2024.xlsx file, and then click Open.
3. In Create Dataset Table from donation.xlsx, click OK.
4. Click Save . In Save Dataset As, enter donations2024 in Name, and then click OK.

   
   

   

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5. Click the donations2024 tab. Select the DATE_POSTED column, click Options , and then select Convert to Date. In Convert to Date, select Custom from the Source Format list, and then enter dd.MMM.yyyy as the date format.
6. Click Add Step.

   
   

   

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7. Click Save .

Create a Workbook

1. Click Create Workbook. Close the Auto Insights panel.
2. In the Data panel, hold down the Ctrl key, select TOTAL_DONATIONS and DATE_POSTED, right-click and then select Create the Best Visualization.

   
   

   Oracle Analytics create a line visualization with TOTAL_DONATIONS on the Y-axis and DATE_POSTED on the X-axis.

   

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3. In the Grammar panel, right-click DATE_POSTED in the Category (X-Axis), select Show By, and then select Month.

   
   

   

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4. In the TOTAL_DONATIONS by DATE_POSTED visualization, click the Menu , select Edit, and then select Duplicate Visualization.
5. Click Change Visualization Type in the duplicate visualization, and then select Language Narrative .

   
   

   

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Add an Attribute to the Visualization

1. In the language narrative visualization, click Menu , and then select Delete Visualization.
2. Select POVERTY_LEVEL in the Data pane and drag it to the TOTAL_DONATIONS by DATE_POSTED visualization.

   
   

   

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3. In the visualization, click the Menu , select Edit, and then select Duplicate Visualization.
4. Click Change Visualization Type in the duplicate visualization, and then select Language Narrative .

   
   

   The language narrative visualization provides information on how poverty level impacts total donations by month.

   

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Change the Tone of the Language Narrative

In this section using the same language narrative visualization, you change the Tone property to see the differences between the narratives.

1. Select the language narrative visualization and click Properties .
2. In the Tones row, click Factual and select Casual.

   
   

   

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3. In the Tones row, click Casual and select Business.

   
   

   

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4. In Properties, click 7 in the Level of Detail row and use the slider to decrease to 3.

   
   

   

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Learn More

• About the Language Narrative Visualization

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Narrate a Visualization in Oracle Analytics

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July 2025

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