Working with insights

QuickSight insights offer a set of features that allow you to express insights from data using natural language. QuickSight can automatically interpret a diagram and suggest narratives that you can quickly add to your analysis. In addition to that, you can build your own custom narrative. In this section, we will do the following:

• Learn how to use suggested insights.
• Create and edit a custom insight.

Adding suggested insights

To better understand the autonarrative features, we will use the example New York Taxi analysis. Let's start with the Sankey diagram to discover interesting insights from the data:

1. First, open the analysis and select any visual by clicking on it.
2. Next, click on the insights icon to reveal the Suggested insights list, as shown here:

Figure 6.4 – Selecting the suggested insights

Next, we will select an insight that looks interesting to display. For example, we can...