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Release Notes 111

New Visual Exploration​

This release contains a new version of the Visual Exploration experience that's been rebuilt from the ground up. The new experience offers seemless integration with the Block Editor and also improves the user experience significantly.

Existing Visual Explorations saved within NetSpring will continue to work using the older Visual Exploration experience and their capabilities are not diminished in any manner. However, all new Visual Explorations will automatically use the new experience. The old experience is not available anymore for creating new Visual Exploration analyses.

Inline Blocks in Explorations​

Users can now define and use new block based modeling artifacts from inside an exploration template.

Exploration templates which support segmentation via the Segments section now offer inline blocks for cohorts and attributes. The listing for cohorts when you click on + Add Cohort now includes an Add Block option which allows a block based definition of a cohort to be used within the same analysis. The blocks defined in this fashion will not be accessible outside of the exploration template. The block editor experience is available to the left of the exploration template, see the documentation for the respective exploration templates for additional details.

Similarly for segmenting by attributes.

In addition to segmentation, blocks can be accessed (referenced) from inside most other points in the template as well, notably filters. Specifically, one can now filter on blocks in addition to filtering on catalog entities.

New Block Types​

This release contains support for several new block types. See the documentation on blocks for more details.

New blocks include:

  • Bin
  • Intervals Engaged
  • Moving Aggregation
  • Period vs Previous Period
  • Previous / Next Value Lookup
  • Rank

Sampling Improvements​

  • Improvements to chart user interface to provide more feedback on use of sampling within the chart, as well as ability to customize the level of sampling on a per-chart basis.
  • Sampling configuration in the Application Settings.
  • Sampling for derived actors, such as "Session", in addition to sampling simply on the primary actor, such as "Users".

Funnel Improvements​

Holding Property Constant

Funnel analysis now supports a new configuration: "Holding Property Constant". When enabled, the user identifies a property that must be held constant for each of the funnel stages.

Other Improvements​

  • Improvements to Charting UI.
  • Performance of dashboard viewing.
  • Bug fixes and other improvements.

See the documentation on funnel for more details.