[bgraves]

Hmm - I hadn't thought about the dashboard / data viz creation side of this. Not sure that I'd want to be sitting in my cube creating dashboards "out loud".

"Okay, let's bring in 'Sales' to the rows card.

"Nah, I don't like that. Move 'Sales' to the columns card.

"Hmm, that doesn't work either. Put 'Sales' back to the rows card but add 'Profitability Indicator" to the details section.

"Crap. Still not working. Let's start over."

Imagine 10 analysts in a room all talking like this :)

[kornish]

Well, anything you can say you can also type out.

[baconner]

this here. I've spent the last couple of years working on a similar data discovery style product and after a lot of playing around with concepts I think semi-natural language descriptions typed and also generated based on your manual data selection can be really useful.

If I'm speaking i have to finish the whole thought and deal with excluding all my "uuhms" and half thoughts. If I'm typing i can intellisense prompt for relevant things. Correlate Sales with _[Discounts, ...]. I think terse natural langage descriptions of data views are really useful aside from voice.

Incidentally nothing like trying to play around with this stuff to make you super self conscious about uuh how you speak.

[bgraves]

True enough. I had the speak-out-loud in natural language demo in my mind, I guess! :)