Assistant commands

Here are some Assistant commands that you can use to explore your data. As you enter the command, notice that the Assistant shows relevant suggestions to help you ask your question quickly.

Suggest questions

Type or click Suggest questions in the Assistant for a set of questions that you can ask. Click one of the suggestions to ask that question.

Suggestions are based on the context of your data source and particular industry.

Remember: Before you request suggestions, you must select a data source to set the context.

You can also type Suggest questions for <column name> to receive a set of questions based on the context of one or more columns.

View data sources
Type Show data to see all of the supported data
sources that you have access to in My content and Team
 content. Supported data sources include:
  • Uploaded files (csv, tsv, xls, xlsx, and zip)
  • Data modules
  • Data sets
  • Framework Manager packages and OLAP data sources (See Enriching packages).

When results exceed the number of displayed items, click
 More to view up to 100 data sources. Scroll to the bottom of the list and click Less to collapse the list.

Show data source details

Type Show source <source name> or 
load source <source name> to display a list of relevant fields and details
for your specified data source.

The Assistant displays the name of the data source that
 is in context. If a context is not set, it uses the active source in your Dashboard or Exploration panel as the loaded source.

If you do not have Use Assistant capability on a specific source, when you enter Show source <source name>, the Assistant displays a message indicating that the package cannot be used.
Note: The list of sources returned by Show source also includes those sources which you do not have access to.
Show column details

Type Show column <column name> to display information and related fields for your specified column. If you apply an aggregation or filter to the column, the Assistant
 returns a chart or visualization.

Show column influencers

Type What influences column <column name> to display a list of fields that influences the results in your specified column.

Show chart <column1> and <column2>

Displays visualizations that show the relationship between <column1> and <column2>.

Each visualization includes an information icon in the upper-right corner. Hover over the icon to see descriptions about the underlying data. You can optionally enter more columns, but excessive columns can result in less effective visualizations.

Under the More menu, click Show related visualizations to view visualizations based on influential and related fields.

Click Create dashboard from the chart to create a new dashboard based on the most recently generated chart. Typing Create related dashboard produces the same resulting dashboard. If the charts contain top or bottom aggregations, these modifiers are applied to the generated dashboard.

Create a dashboard

Type or click Create dashboard to generate a new
dashboard with analytics and predictive charts that is based on the currently selected data source.

You can use columns with aggregations and filters when creating a dashboard.

Help
Type or click Help to display an overview and general
usage information.