As we wrap up another year of data exploration, collaboration, and insight generation, it’s time to spotlight the top new features in Dataiku that made analysts' lives easier in 2024. Think of it as your personal Spotify Wrapped, but for the tools and updates that powered your analytics journey in 2024.
Here’s a look at the hits of the year, ranked by their ability to supercharge your workflows:
🎤 Collaboration Anthem: "Dataiku Stories"
Forget static presentations. Dataiku Stories lets you quickly and easily craft narratives around your data projects all while using generative AI to save hours of work. Combine key metrics, charts, and insights into a shareable story that speaks directly to stakeholders and is always up to date. Since everything happens within the same platform where you build your analytics projects, Dataiku Stories helps you close the gaps between you and your stakeholders.
Why Analysts Love It:
- Saves hours of preparing and updating slides or reports.
- Bridges the gap between data teams and business users.
- Empowers you to showcase your analytical expertise with visual clarity.
🔥 Breakout Features: "Data Quality and Data Lineage"
From a complete overhaul to data quality in Dataiku to new features for tracking column-level data lineage, 2024 has been a breakout year for data confidence! Data quality rules introduced earlier this year allow you to easily test and validate data, while comprehensive data quality dashboards — at the dataset, project, and even instance level — give you full visibility over your data projects. To round out the year, we introduced data lineage, allowing you to easily perform root cause or impact analysis and investigate column-level data lineage — even across different projects!
Why Analysts Love It:
- Simplifies debugging and data validation.
- Makes impact analysis a breeze by showing exactly how changes affect downstream results.
- Ensures your data workflows remain compliant and trustworthy.
📈 Time-Saving Banger: "Data Preparation Enhancements"
Data preparation leveled up in Dataiku in 2024, with expanded options like conditional formatting and multi-row formulas. These enhancements make data prep faster, smarter, and more powerful.
Why Analysts Love It:
- Handles complex transformations without writing code.
- Reduces time spent wrangling data, so you can focus on insights.
- Expands the toolset for analysts familiar with spreadsheet-style logic.
✨ Fan Favorite: "Generative Recipe"
AI assistants in Dataiku, while great, were so 2023. Now, Dataiku takes generative AI in your projects a step further with the new generate recipe. With simple prompts, you can tell Dataiku what you want to do, and it will choose the right recipes to get you there, automatically generating them within the flow! This is great when you’re a little stuck or aren’t quite sure how to do what you want when transforming data.
Why Analysts Love It:
- Simplifies complex data prep tasks.
- Frees up time for creative problem-solving and exploration.
- Leverages GenAI to speed up workflows and save time.
🎶 Best Remix: "Build Flow Zone From Scenarios"
In 2024, Dataiku brought new capabilities to scenarios, giving you more power than ever to automate common data pipeline tasks. With the new ability to build entire flow zones, analysts can skip building steps one by one and drastically simplify automation.
Why Analysts Love It:
- Saves time by automating tasks in bulk.
- Reduces the risk of errors through standardization.
- Helps you do more with your data pipelines.
🏆 Special Mention: "Chart and Visualization Enhancements"
With each release, Dataiku has maintained a consistent drumbeat of chart and visualization improvements. So let’s celebrate these incremental, but powerful, enhancements to the way teams can visualize data! From a new, streamlined dashboard UI to conditional formatting to brand-new chart types (Sankey or Gauge, anyone?!) you have more ways to visualize data than ever before.
Why Analysts Love It:
- More flexibility than ever with visualizations.
- Enhancements to data storytelling for better clarity.
- Happier stakeholders who get exactly what they want.
What's Your Dataiku Wrapped Highlight?
As you reflect on your year in data, which feature made the biggest impact on your work? Whether you’re an analyst who is new to Dataiku or a seasoned expert, we had something for everyone in 2024.
Here’s to more insights, innovation, and impact in 2025!