Describe a Bar Chart
About the narrative
Details covered in the analysis
The length of the narrative and the level of detail the narrative contains depend on which Tell me how to say it narrative option is selected.
The bar chart narrative includes:
descriptive statistics, stating total values and outliers across the first two selected dimensions.
a time-based variance analysis, if a time dimension is selected.
The narrative wording depends on the selected aggregation types, referring, for example, to total, average, minimum or maximum values. For the Percentage
, Rating
and Ratio
entity types, total values are omitted from the narrative as it does not make sense to sum up non-additive measures.
Note
Day-on-day, week-on-week, month-on-month, quarter-on-quarter, or year-on-year analysis will be performed depending on the dates covered in your dataset.
Data requirements
All NLG Apps have the same data requirements relating to supported formats and field names. See the NLG Apps Data requirements topic for details.
In addition, each app has specific data requirements:
If your data selection and configuration do not meet the specific requirements for a particular app, the app is grayed out and disabled in the wizard. In this example, the Describe a Pie Chart app has been disabled:
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Dimensions and measures
This app can analyze:
Minimum requirement: one dimension (can be a time dimension) and one measure. ImportantIf including a time dimension, make sure the Entity Type field in Step 1 is set to | ![]() |
Aggregation and entity types
Not all combinations of aggregation and entity types are supported for measures. The Describe a Bar Chart app can analyze the following combinations:
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Tip
Aggregation types are set in Power BI.
Entity types and other data attributes are set in Step 1 of the Arria for Power BI wizard.
Configuration options
The following options are available to configure:
OPTION | DESCRIPTION | LOCATION |
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Tell me how to say it | Summary: produces a narrative of filtered facts in a more concise way than the Important things option. Important things: produces a narrative of filtered facts based on Arria's ranking algorithm. Tell me everything: produces a narrative that includes every fact extracted from your data by Arria's algorithms. Default: Important things. | ![]() |