Automatic generation of user onboarding tours for business analytic applications

A computer system for automatically generating an onboarding tour for users of a business analytic application corresponding to an entity, the computer system comprising:

• a bus system;
• a storage device connected to the bus system, wherein the storage device stores program instructions;
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• a processor connected to the bus system, wherein the processor executes the program instructions to:
• receive an input to generate the onboarding tour for the users of the business analytic application corresponding to the entity to assist the users in exploring capabilities of the business analytic application and understanding data analysis provided by the business analytic application;
• retrieve the business analytic application corresponding to the entity and a dataset used by the business analytic application in response to receiving the input to generate the onboarding tour for the users of the business analytic application corresponding to the entity;
• analyze columns of the dataset used by the business analytic application in response to retrieving the business analytic application and the dataset, wherein the dataset represents a collection of data corresponding to a particular domain associated with the entity;
• analyze characteristics of visualizations within the business analytic application, wherein the visualizations represent data corresponding to the columns of the dataset used by the business analytic application, and wherein the characteristics comprise one or more of:
• layout, style, position, interactivity, and grouping;
• generate ordered groups of visualizations corresponding to the business analytic application based on a result of analyzing the columns of the dataset used by the business analytic application and the characteristics of the visualizations of the business analytic application;
• generate a set of visualization paths corresponding to the business analytic application based on the ordered groups of visualizations;
• generate a set of visual cues with text that explains to the users of the business analytic application what the visualizations are about and how to interact with the visualizations for each visualization path in the set of visualization paths corresponding to the business analytic application based on the result of analyzing the characteristics of the visualizations of the business analytic application, wherein the text for each set of visual cues is generated from extracted column label text and ontological concepts that correspond to each particular visualization path in the set of visualization paths utilizing natural language generation;
• embed the set of visual cues with the text that explains to the users of the business analytic application what the visualizations are about and how to interact with the visualizations in each visualization path in the set of visualization paths corresponding to the business analytic application;
• order visualization paths in the set of visualization paths corresponding to the business analytic application to form the onboarding tour that includes the set of visual cues with the text that explains to the users of the business analytic application what the visualizations are about and how to interact with the visualizations based on the result of analyzing the columns of the dataset used by the business analytic application and the characteristics of the visualizations of the business analytic application;
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• output, via a network, the onboard tour that includes the set of visual cues with the text that explains to the users of the business analytic application what the visualizations are about and how to interact with the visualizations to the business analytic application on a client device that implements the business analytic application.

A computer program product for automatically generating an onboarding tour for users of a business analytic application corresponding to an entity, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform a method comprising:

• receiving, by the computer, an input to generate the onboarding tour for the users of the business analytic application corresponding to the entity to assist the users in exploring capabilities of the business analytic application and understanding data analysis provided by the business analytic application;
• retrieving, by the computer responsive to receiving the input to generate the onboarding tour for the users of the business analytic application corresponding to the entity, the business analytic application corresponding to the entity and a dataset used by the business analytic application;
• analyzing, by the computer responsive to retrieving the business analytic application and the dataset, columns of the dataset used by the business analytic application, wherein the dataset represents a collection of data corresponding to a particular domain associated with the entity;
• analyzing, by the computer, characteristics of visualizations within the business analytic application, wherein the visualizations represent data corresponding to the columns of the dataset used by the business analytic application, and wherein the characteristics comprise one or more of:
• layout, style, position, interactivity, and grouping;
• generating, by the computer, ordered groups of visualizations corresponding to the business analytic application based on a result of analyzing the columns of the dataset used by the business analytic application and the characteristics of the visualizations of the business analytic application;
• generating, by the computer, a set of visualization paths corresponding to the business analytic application based on the ordered groups of visualizations;
• generating, by the computer, a set of visual cues with text that explains to the users of the business analytic application what the visualizations are about and how to interact with the visualizations for each visualization path in the set of visualization paths corresponding to the business analytic application based on the result of analyzing the characteristics of the visualizations of the business analytic application, wherein the computer generates the text for each set of visual cues from extracted column label text and ontological concepts that correspond to each particular visualization path in the set of visualization paths utilizing natural language generation;
• embedding, by the computer, the set of visual cues with the text that explains to the users of the business analytic application what the visualizations are about and how to interact with the visualizations in each visualization path in the set of visualization paths corresponding to the business analytic application;
• ordering, by the computer, visualization paths in the set of visualization paths corresponding to the business analytic application to form the onboarding tour that includes the set of visual cues with the text that explains to the users of the business analytic application what the visualizations are about and how to interact with the visualizations based on the result of analyzing the columns of the dataset used by the business analytic application and the characteristics of the visualizations of the business analytic application;
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• outputting, by the computer via a network, the onboard tour that includes the set of visual cues with the text that explains to the users of the business analytic application what the visualizations are about and how to interact with the visualizations to the business analytic application on a client device that implements the business analytic application.