Ask Your Data users can now take their visual analysis and presentation to the next level with our latest redesign of the tool’s charting experience. You have more chart types to choose from, more control over how your data is presented, and a simpler way to create and refine charts that clearly communicate what your data is telling you.
New charting experience
Ask Your Data's visualization layer now supports more than 30 chart types. Configuration controls let you change chart type, axes, series, labels, and sorting after a chart renders, and those changes persist across sessions, so a chart you design once stays how you want it.
On top of that, a new conversational chart editor will read plain-language requests like "make this a stacked bar, sort descending," works out the chart type and field-to-axis mapping on its own, and re-renders the chart without any manual setup. This builds on the auto-charting we shipped earlier this year, which already picks a sensible default chart type from your prompt.
Why it matters
Charts exist to communicate information, and how well they do that depends on how closely they match the story you're telling. Full control over aesthetics means a chart can match the story you’re telling, instead of forcing every story into a default look. For institutions building shared pinboards to drive data-informed decision-making, that combination — a wider, more precise set of chart types, full aesthetic control, and faster setup — means those views represent the data more accurately and communicate it more easily and effectively.
