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· One min read
Shawn Cao

Changes list​

  1. Completely new visual story workspace

    • Work with multiple different data sources in one visual story.
    • Save mulitple versions in one edit.
    • Brand new data source exploration, get all information about the data you're working on.
    • Get query recommendations from your data without knowning how to analyze it.

  2. Support general chat for each visual story and drop-in-place chats in graph anywhere.

  3. Fine grained access control of your visual story

    • Share with specific individuals (by emails), they will get email notifications.
    • Share with public/everyone with different permission level (viewer, commenter, editor).

  4. Other improvements, such as

    • Support "percentage" format in value format options.
    • Support frame fine tuning bar race experience by introduce frame steps setting.
    • Other UI updates.

Examples​

  1. Check out our new visual story composer Visual Story

  2. Share with people. Access Settings

  3. Chat with people freely Drop chats

· One min read
Shawn Cao

Changes list​

  1. Improve usability of Tooltip - always place tooltip on the top over other visual elements.
  2. Revamp on Bar Race, easy to create fully customized bar race chart.
  3. Introduce entity repo to allow Columns to look up entity info by key (Entity examples: company, country).
  4. Support different shape choices for arrow - Triangle or Circle.
  5. When data expired in Columns Cloud during creation time, Columns now automatically reload it so users don't need to refresh the page.

Examples​

  1. 1-minute to create a bar race chart. Bar Race Chart Example

  2. Maintain a legit entity repo. (https://columns.ai/entity) Entity example

· One min read
Shawn Cao

Changes list​

  1. Enhanced Line/Area chart to enable style settings for every single line (metric).
  2. More reliable settings of appropriate number of axis tick count.
  3. Limit breakdowns from freezing web UI when there is a huge breakdowns in pivoting case.
  4. Bug fixes - such as sorting state loss, value precision can not set to 0.

Examples​

  1. set different style for each line including line width, and marker style Each metric line has its own style