Showcase Workbook
A sales performance analysis, created using Arria for Tableau and NLG Studio
Overview
Download our showcase workbook and open in Tableau Online to experience Arria for Tableau in action.
Tip
We recommend exploring the Arria for Tableau showcase workbook using Tableau Online.
See how our intelligent narratives augment the report with automatically-generated, insightful summaries that interpret the visuals and uncover the story behind them. Understand how Arria's narratives enable you to make faster, data-driven decisions and accelerate informed action.
Experience the full interactivity of Arria's narratives: see them automatically regenerate in response to actions you take within the dashboard, such as filtering charts or using the extension's Parameter Controls feature.
Switch to Arria Answers from any of the narratives to gain real-time insights by asking specific questions of your data in natural language.
Highlights
Each dashboard in the showcase workbook, which contains typical sales data, demonstrates one of Arria for Tableau's core features.
Tip
We recommend exploring the Arria for Tableau showcase workbook using Tableau Online.
Explore NLG Apps
NLG Apps add instant understanding to any Tableau dashboard — no coding required.
Click the visuals on the Analyze Sales Performance, Analyze Trends/Ranking, Analyze Anomalies/Correlations, and Describe Charts dashboards to watch the narratives update instantly. Try configuring an NLG app on the Configure NLG Apps dashboard.
Analyze Sales Performance
The Analyze Sales Performance dashboard showcases the analysis of sales performance in terms of quantitative insights like totals, maximums, and outliers, and in terms of variance — over time and between target and actual values.
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Generates a summary of quantitative insights derived from your measures and dimensions, describing where statistically interesting breakdowns appear. | Analyzes the variance in performance of a measure between two time periods, such as current quarter vs. the same quarter of the previous year. | Analyzes the variance between the target value and the actual value of a measure, drilling down through multiple dimensions to build the narrative. | ||
Analyze Trends/Ranking
The Analyze Trends/Ranking dashboard showcases our latest ready-to-use intelligent narratives. These NLG Apps analyze measures over time in terms of trends and the ranking of dimensions such as Market, Product and Country.
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Analyzes the changes in a measure over time, highlighting significant trends and drilling down through a number of dimensions to build the narrative. | Summarizes the top and bottom rankings of combinations of dimensions over time, highlighting changes in rank. | ||
Analyze Anomalies/Correlations
The Analyze Anomalies/Correlations dashboard showcases our latest ready-to-use intelligent narratives, which help you understand the anomalies and correlations in your data.
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Detects, highlights, and contextualizes anomalies in a dataset, drilling down through multiple dimensions to build the narrative. | Detects and highlights correlations between series of data points, drilling down through multiple dimensions to build the narrative. | ||
Describe Charts
The Describe Charts page showcases three narrative apps that interpret and bring more meaning to pie, bar, and line charts.
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Describes a pie chart and highlights statistically relevant insights from the underlying data to explain the chart in more detail. | Describes a bar chart and highlights statistically relevant insights from the underlying data to explain the chart in more detail. | Describes a line chart and highlights statistically relevant insights from the underlying data to explain the chart in more detail. | ||
Configure NLG Apps
Configure NLG Apps in three easy steps to create your own narratives, and learn more from the NLG Apps reference.
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Explore Arria Answers
Arria Answers is a conversational-AI platform that gives you real-time access to key insights from your data, using natural language. Move between visuals and Arria Answers whenever a question comes to mind — without interrupting your workflow.
Drill down into your data by asking questions like Which Country has the lowest Actual Sales of Glower?
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See the Arria Answers reference to learn about supported query types.
Explore Custom Narratives
Created using Arria NLG Studio and configured using Arria for Tableau's Custom Narratives feature, the narrative on this page complements the visuals with a month-on-month sales variance analysis, identifying key insights, and the main drivers and offsets.
Dynamically vary custom narratives using the Parameter Controls feature.
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Questions?
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