Generating Insights in the ibi WebFOCUS Hub

How to:

You can easily run advanced analyses and generate visualizations and narratives on your data sets, without manually preparing and analyzing your data, or having prior knowledge of data science or statistics.

With one click, Insights can generate visualizations as charts with natural language headers. Then you can save your insights in a workspace and use them later within WebFOCUS Designer.

Note: For installation information, see the ibi™ WebFOCUS® Installation and Configuration manual for your platform.

Procedure: How to Generate Insights

You can generate visualizations that give you insights into your data.

  1. From the WebFOCUS Hub, click the plus menu, and then click Explore Data.

    The Select Data Source dialog box opens, as shown in the following image.

  2. Select a data source from which you want to generate insights.

    Your insights are generated, as shown in the following image.

    Note: Insights based on datasets with more than 100,000 records use representative sampling of 100,000 data points.

    The total number of insights generated, with a time stamp, is displayed. If your data is dynamic, you can click the refresh icon to gain updated insights.

    Your insights display as visualizations, or charts, in different accordions, which can be collapsed or expanded. Each insight includes an automated, header narrative that explains the trends in your data.

    Click Switch Data Source to return to the Select Data Source dialog box. Click the Action icon to run your chart in a new window, or save your chart to a workspace. Click Close to return to the WebFOCUS Hub.

    Depending on your data set, your insights are generated and categorized into the following tabs:

    • Single Columns. Displays results for single columns of data. Insights can show dominance and distributions.
    • Pairs of Columns. Displays results for pairs of columns of data. Insights can show correlations and associations.
    • Time-series. Displays results for single columns of data that change over time. Insights can show seasonality, trend, and outliers.

    For more information on types of generated insights and charts, see Generating Insights in ibi WebFOCUS Designer.

Procedure: How to Save Insights

You can save your chart to a workspace.

  1. To save a chart, click the Action icon in the generated chart container.

    A context menu opens, with options to save the visualization to a workspace, or run the visualization in a new window.

  2. Click save the visualization to a workspace.

    The Save dialog opens, allowing you to name the chart and select a workspace location.

  3. Click OK.

    The chart is now saved to your selected workspace. From your workspace, you can right-click your chart to run it, share it, or edit it within WebFOCUS Designer.

Procedure: How to Edit Insights

After saving a chart to your workspace, you can open and edit it in WebFOCUS Designer.

  1. Right-click your saved chart and click Edit.

    Your chart opens in WebFOCUS Designer, as shown in the following image.

    For more information on editing insights, see Generating Insights in ibi WebFOCUS Designer.