AI Slide Insights

Slide insights provide an AI-automated analysis of a given slide and dynamically generate output that is returned in natural language. The insights will change dynamically as the data in the slide changes. The Insights are displayed in a box that can be positioned and formatted anywhere on the slide. This information is produced by analyzing the data in the slide. The insights can be customized by selecting the required user tone and verbosity in the Settings dialog box.

Slide Insights will not operate without an LLM provider

Insight Content

The insights are generated in the current user's chosen application language. This includes support for right-to-left text in Hebrew or Arabic. It combines analysis of information from the following categories:

  • Basic Facts: Standard metric analysis, including the average, maximum, minimum, dispersion, median and standard deviation.
  • Pareto Analysis: The value's total and top n and bottom n that account for a certain percentage.
  • Relationships: Any positive or negative metric correlations, relationships, and a correlation statistic.
  • Trends: Uses regression analysis with r-squared and slope coefficients to explain how changes to a metric affects another metric, the closeness of fit score, and the slope correlation
  • Forecasts: Best fit forecasting (across eight different algorithms) if the query contains a date-time hierarchy to predict whether a value will increase or decrease over a certain period and by how much, with the range of fluctuation
  • Outliers: Displays the top three most outstanding data points in the query. It also shows the probability density for each outlier.
  • Categorical Analysis: Depending on the amount of data in the query, categorical insights may display information about comparatives, correlations, and forecasts.

Add and Configure Slide Insights

  1. From the left-hand Toolbox, right-click the Add Text Field option and from the sub-menu, click Slide Insights.

    2. The cursor is enabled.

  2. Click on the canvas where you want to drop your Text Field.

    3. The Slide Insights panel is added to the canvas.

  3. Select the #SlideInsights panel on the canvas to access the Settings for the Slide Insights.

  4. From here, select the required settings from the drop-downs:
    • User Tone Type: Select from the options to determine the tone of the text message used for the insights.
    • LLM Verbosity: Select Low, Medium, or High to determine the level of detail and explanation for the insights.
  5. Click Apply.

Alternative Process: Chatbot

If you use the Chatbot to create or update one or your slides, a Smart Insight text field will be added in response to your prompt:

  • If you do not indicate that you want to add Slide Insights explicitly in your prompt, a Gen-BI icon is added to your slide automatically. At runtime, your reader can hover over this icon with their cursor to view the AI generated insight information as a pop-up. Note: This functionality speeds up the load time for the presentation, since the Smart Insights are only populated when the user hovers over the icon.
  • If you include a request to add Slide Insights explicitly to your prompt, a Slide Insights panel (a text field containing the variable #SmartInsights) is added to your slide.

For more information, see the step-by-step exercise at Build a Storyboard with the Chatbot.

Example Result

Text Field

Gen-BI Icon

  • Where Slide Insights are added to the slide automatically by the Chatbot (as described above), the Gen-BI illustration is added to the slide at the top-left corner.
  • When your reader views the slide at runtime, they can:
    • Hover their cursor over the icon (green arrow) to view the AI generated insight information in a pop-up.
    • Click the Audio icon (blue arrow) in the pop-up to hear the Smart Insight information read aloud.