Our AI is getting smarter. Now Blobby can answer data questions like suggesting queries or offering follow-up questions. Additionally we've added some metadata hooks in the model to improve how fields are selected, add example values, and more.

Our first guest demo from Chris at CamoAG gives us an overview of the different mapping and tiling systems (and lots of , and shows off a few of the new Omni region mapping visualizations.

Lots of vis:

• The general launch of map regions in GA, plus a demo of the new support for rendering these through the scheduler and more intelligent viewport setting when data gets filtered.

• Lots of new toggles to make axes exactly right. Now you can hide/show ticks, the axis line, and more.

• We polished up the default datetime formats on x-axis to make it more intelligent and easier to read.

• Still striving to create a best-in-class SQL writing experience. We overhauled the autocomplete UX to be more intelligent and prettier.

More dashboard improvements:

• Date filters using between were set to mirror Looker's behavior, which means that the end date was non-inclusive. We've heard lots of feedback that folks don't like that and have now changed the behavior and added an additional tooltip to explain (ie. now 2024-01-01 to 2024-06-01 will include June 1st rather than excluding it).

• We finally got to the root of a frustrating bug that was moving visualizations on the dashboard after unrelated edits.

• Another demo of the soon-to-release drafts workflow.

And plenty for modelers and admins too:

• New tooling that allows database connections to be parameterized via user attributes. This offers some optionality around permissioning (secure connection vs open connection) or even allowing large Snowflake warehouses for specific users or use cases.

• We've tuned the handling of embed user permissions. Rather than using connection defaults, now external embed users will require explicit permission setting in the URL construction. This makes app intent more clear and offers more nuance for internal/external shared deployments.

• A new API for editing the model.