<story><title>Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/visualize-data-instantly-machine-learning-google-sheets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text>When I worked for SAP back in 2007 (I was a fresh grad at the time), I was working in the business intelligence (reporting, analytics, and data warehousing) group and noticed how cumbersome it was for organizations to simply create and view reports (we&amp;#x27;re talking millions of dollars). I once said to my boss &amp;quot;you realize that in the future we&amp;#x27;ll simply just write &amp;#x27;show me a line graph for sales in the northeast&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And so here we are now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tryitnow</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m currently evaluating BI vendors for my company and just about every major contender has this functionality or is developing it.  Read the Gartner report from 2017 and they basically just come out and say that this will be the new standard in BI.&lt;p&gt;The much harder problem is data management and preparation.  Anyone with half a brain and a decent visualization tool can create basic graphs - but that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean they should, especially if the organization doesn&amp;#x27;t have good data management processes in place.&lt;p&gt;Issues like data governance, data prep, and data modelling are the major pain points for me.  And honestly, developing a useful BI solution is more about culture change than it is technology.  If a company has poor data governance, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter how whiz-bang their technology is, they&amp;#x27;re still not going to get useful insight from their numbers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/visualize-data-instantly-machine-learning-google-sheets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text>When I worked for SAP back in 2007 (I was a fresh grad at the time), I was working in the business intelligence (reporting, analytics, and data warehousing) group and noticed how cumbersome it was for organizations to simply create and view reports (we&amp;#x27;re talking millions of dollars). I once said to my boss &amp;quot;you realize that in the future we&amp;#x27;ll simply just write &amp;#x27;show me a line graph for sales in the northeast&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And so here we are now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MitjaBezensek</author><text>So many of our clients (I&amp;#x27;m still working in the BI space) are still using Excel workbooks and sending them to each other over email. I think it will take quite some time before we see any major improvements in this area. But I agree with you. Some of the stuff I see makes me cringe.</text></comment>