Adding free text, Better filtering, New calcs, & more
January 12, 2024
This week, we have a Another batch of good ones:
Free Text Spreadsheeting
Have you ever wanted to just add text to each rows by hand in the BI tool? Now you can. A new spreadsheet interaction for adding free text. We need to open up more and more possibilities for these, but simple annotations, re-aggregation of hand grouping, or just quick classifications are all now possible directly in the table.
Better Dashboard Filter Mapping
A renovation of our filter selection on dashboards, curating the experience to active topics making organization cleaner and simpler
Pivot Spreadsheet Calculations
New calculations for inside pivots - easy cohorting, period-over-period, or other more complex calculations over pivoted data sets
Embedding in Safari
Embedded support for Safari, handling more restrictive cookie-ing in the browser
Vega Not Lite
A first look at building visualizations with Vega rather than Vega lite. While usually too complex, this opens up some options for more advanced visualizations that are not currently buildable in Vega Lite. Doesn't look like this will make it into product without more thought.
bind_all_filters
The release of bind_all_filters
that allow for subqueries and fact tables that listen to filters inside a query, handy for more dynamic SQL compilation at multiple levels in the query.