What Are Auto Insights?

Auto insights are visualizations that Oracle Analytics generates for you based on your dataset's measures, attributes, and relationships. You can add these generated visualizations to your workbook.

The Auto Insights feature does the work of a data scientist for you and helps you understand and analyze your data more completely.

Each auto insight visualization contains a natural language summary that explains the relationship between attributes and measures, and highlights other points of interest.
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You can customize the insights results by specifying the dataset columns you want Oracle Analytics to analyze and by specifying the visualization types you want Auto Insights to display.

When you add a dataset to a workbook, Oracle Analytics profiles the dataset to find the insights in your data. After you add a dataset to your workbook, you can open the Auto Insights panel to view the data insights that Oracle Analytics found.

Oracle Analytics generates insights for datasets containing up to 300 million cells, where the number of cells is calculated as the number of rows multiplied by the number of columns.

Oracle Analytics generates insights for most dataset types. Exceptions include:
  • Multidimensional sources such as Essbase, Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service, and Analytic Views.
  • Datasets based on non-Oracle databases.