We’ve all been there: It’s late in the afternoon, and you suddenly get a message from leadership asking for a presentation on the latest sales forecast — due in an hour. You scramble, pulling data from multiple tools, pasting outdated screenshots into slides, and hoping the insights still hold true by the time it’s delivered.
What if, instead of the chaos just described, you could instantly generate a polished, data-driven presentation that’s always up-to-date? Enter Dataiku Stories, a groundbreaking new feature in Dataiku that lets analytics teams create dynamic, trustworthy presentations in seconds, all powered by Generative AI and the most current data.
The Challenge: Static Presentations and Outdated Insights
For most data teams, presentations are the primary medium through which insights reach the broader business. However, these traditional presentations have major pitfalls.
First, they’re static: As soon as they’re sent, they become out of date, especially in organizations where data is constantly changing. Screenshots pasted into decks from various tools can result in inconsistencies, leaving decision-makers with outdated, incomplete, or inaccurate information. This leads to a second problem: trust. If the data in your slides can’t be fully trusted or easily traced to its source, how can the business be confident in its decisions?
And third, these presentations are time-consuming to produce. Analysts are often tasked with creating visualizations and slides manually, sifting through tools, aggregating data, and cleaning it up just to make it presentable — only for it to lose relevance in a matter of days.
Seamless, Trusted, and Dynamic Presentations
Dataiku Stories takes the pain out of creating data-driven presentations. Rather than spending hours building reports or dashboards, analysts and data teams can now create dynamic stories in seconds. Leveraging Generative AI, Dataiku Stories automatically suggests the right data points, highlights key insights, and even helps format and design the presentation — turning a time-consuming process into a swift and efficient one. And most importantly, the insights are always up to date, coming directly from trusted datasets within the Dataiku platform.
For data executives and analytics leaders, Dataiku Stories offers something invaluable: peace of mind. Presentations can be built using trusted analytics and maintained within the Universal AI Platform. With a single platform for both data preparation and storytelling, Dataiku Stories ensures your presentations are grounded in accurate, up-to-date data, boosting trust in the insights shared across the business.
Why Dataiku Stories Stands Out: Bridging the Collaboration Gap
Today, a gap exists between data products that data teams create and tools, such as presentations or dashboards, that are used to share last-mile insights to business stakeholders so that they can make data-driven decisions. This means that while business teams are actually using their work, data teams miss out on the opportunity to receive valuable feedback that could be reincorporated for better results in upstream projects.
Dataiku Stories was designed to help bridge that gap. By unifying presentation development into the same platform where data teams build analytics projects and AI models, business teams can take trusted data that is shared with them and create polished presentations without needing to hop between different tools.
The result? More productivity, greater trust, and a seamless handoff between data teams and business stakeholders.
Let’s explore some of the standout features that make Dataiku Stories an essential tool for data and analytics teams:
1. Generative AI Assistant: The GenAI Assistant provides suggestions for relevant data points, layout ideas, and automatically generates content. This helps users quickly create compelling presentations and ensures that the story they’re telling is supported by key insights.
Use GenAI to create dynamic, interactive presentations with simple prompts.
2. Dynamic, Always Up-to-Date Presentations: Dataiku Stories allows for presentations that update automatically with new data. This means teams no longer need to create new decks every reporting cycle; instead, they can create once and reuse, knowing the data is always fresh and reliable.
3. Collaboration Workspaces: Analysts and business stakeholders can work together through collaboration features within Dataiku Stories as well as in shared workspaces. This enables collaborative storytelling, with features like tags and shared data views, ensuring everyone is aligned on the insights being presented.
Easily collaborate with business teams in Workspaces.
4. Seamless Data Integration: Because Dataiku Stories is part of the broader Dataiku platform, presentations are built from trusted data. Analysts don’t need to worry about exporting data from one tool to another — it all happens within a single environment.
Use Cases: Dataiku Stories in Action
To better understand the value of Dataiku Stories, let’s look at a few real-world use cases:
- Regular Business-Decision Supporting Reporting: Teams responsible for regular reports — whether financial, marketing, or operational — can use Dataiku Stories to create reusable presentations. Since the data updates automatically, teams can save time by reusing their slides each cycle, leverage the Gen AI assistant to structure their insights, confident that the latest data is being pulled into the presentation.
- On-the-Fly Presentations: In fast-moving operational meetings, where key decisions need to be made quickly, Dataiku Stories allows teams to create slides on the fly. With data being pulled in real-time, there’s no need to wait for manual updates or worry about outdated information.
- From AI Project to Insights: Imagine a machine learning team has developed a customer propensity model. Before moving it into production, they need to present the model’s outcome to the business. With Dataiku Stories, they can quickly generate a business-focused presentation using Gen AI, leveraging trusted data directly from their project. The presentation can then be refined, with stakeholders collaborating in real-time. And because the story is dynamic, any updates to the model or underlying data are automatically reflected in the presentation.
Conclusion: Elevating Data Insights With Dataiku Stories
Dataiku Stories is a game-changer for analytics and data teams looking to enhance the way they deliver insights. With dynamic, trusted presentations built in seconds and enhanced by Generative AI, the feature bridges the gap between data preparation and data storytelling. Whether for AI project reviews, repetitive reports, or quick operational updates, Dataiku Stories ensures that your presentations are as agile as the data behind them. It’s time to say goodbye to static slides and hello to dynamic, trustworthy insights that drive real business outcomes.
Dataiku Stories is currently available to qualified existing customers.