Would love to see more natural language interfaces being built for business, cant agree more with your post! It is far more intuitive to ask questions of your data than to deal with select boxes and filters. For many cases, canned dashboards are perfect though. There are some questions so obvious that one doesn't want to ask them - for example, what was the number of visitors to my website yesterday. You would rather someone told you that even before you could ask!
You wrote "Data Democratization is about bridging the gap between our language and the language of data"
Nicely put!
In this context, I believe you may be interested in test diving the Executable English system. It's live online at www.executable-english.com, with many examples that you can view, run and change using a browser. You are cordially invited to write and run your own examples too. If you are reading this, you already know most of the Executable English language !
"Next-gen pivot table" is very close to the vision of SeekTable, and several years ago I also was very inspired by the idea of NLQ and "google-like-search-for-data" (ThoughtSpot invested a lot into this idea). Simple variant of "Q&A" was in SeekTable from the beginning, so I have collected some feedback from users + usage logs of this capability. Now I'm not so optimistic with the assumption that users really want NLQ as a primary interface for in a "self-service" BI, this is a nice-to-have capability but it seems vast majority of users still prefer to use good-old interfaces with dropdowns / checkboxes (textboxes for local searches are also here).
Would love to see more natural language interfaces being built for business, cant agree more with your post! It is far more intuitive to ask questions of your data than to deal with select boxes and filters. For many cases, canned dashboards are perfect though. There are some questions so obvious that one doesn't want to ask them - for example, what was the number of visitors to my website yesterday. You would rather someone told you that even before you could ask!
You wrote "Data Democratization is about bridging the gap between our language and the language of data"
Nicely put!
In this context, I believe you may be interested in test diving the Executable English system. It's live online at www.executable-english.com, with many examples that you can view, run and change using a browser. You are cordially invited to write and run your own examples too. If you are reading this, you already know most of the Executable English language !
Thanks for comments.
"Next-gen pivot table" is very close to the vision of SeekTable, and several years ago I also was very inspired by the idea of NLQ and "google-like-search-for-data" (ThoughtSpot invested a lot into this idea). Simple variant of "Q&A" was in SeekTable from the beginning, so I have collected some feedback from users + usage logs of this capability. Now I'm not so optimistic with the assumption that users really want NLQ as a primary interface for in a "self-service" BI, this is a nice-to-have capability but it seems vast majority of users still prefer to use good-old interfaces with dropdowns / checkboxes (textboxes for local searches are also here).