As humans, we’re naturally drawn to visuals. We process information faster and understand concepts better when we see them presented in a clear, visual format - whether it’s a simple trend or a complex set of interactions, a good visual representation turns numbers into a narrative. When it comes to educational data, this need for effective visualization is even more pronounced—especially for Canvas administrators who want to derive actionable insights without getting bogged down in complexity.
This is why, with our September release of Intelligent Insights, we introduced a brand new chart generation experience in Ask Your Data—a major upgrade designed to simplify data presentation in the tool.
New Charting Experience
With this new chart generation workflow, Ask Your Data offers a more seamless, intuitive, and powerful experience. Here’s what you can expect:
- Enhanced User Interface: the upgraded charting workflow is easy to use, allowing you to generate charts from the retrieved data sets in a more intuitive and straightforward way.
- Upgraded Data Presentation: with our new chart library, charts are now more visually appealing, providing clearer and more engaging data presentations.
- Improved Chart Types: Depending on the types of columns Ask Your Data retrieved as the response to your prompt, it offers various chart types for you to select - you can choose from bar, pie, line, and scatter plot charts, each designed to communicate different aspects of your data effectively:
- Bar Charts to compare categories and show distributions
- Pie Charts for displaying proportions and percentages
- Line Charts to track trends over time
- Scatter Plots for showing relationships and correlations within your data.
Ask Your Data is part of Intelligent Insights - for further information about this and other updates, visit the product's September '24 Release Notes.
