DataLion Release 2025.2.185 – revamped sharing & embedding, cleaner reports, smarter filters

🚀 Highlights

Sharing & Embedding, Reimagined — We’ve completely overhauled how dashboard sharing and embedding works. Cleaner URLs, more reliable authentication, and a smoother experience for everyone — whether you’re sharing with colleagues or embedding dashboards for your clients.

✨ What’s New

  • 🔗 Smarter share links: Ever shared a report link and the recipient ended up on the wrong page after logging in? Not anymore! Unauthenticated users are now redirected straight to the shared report — zero friction, zero confusion.

  • 👁️ Clean shared reports: Sharing a report with external stakeholders? You can now hide the navigation buttons for a sleek, presentation-ready view. Find this option in your dashboard’s share settings.

  • 📊 “Different base” warning control: Got pie charts where the “different base” warning is more noise than signal? A new setting lets you hide it. Head to Admin → Projects → Settings → Value Display and toggle “Hide different base warning”.

  • 🔍 Sorted filter lists: Excluded questions in global filter dropdowns are now sorted alphabetically — finding the right filter just got a lot easier.

📈 Improvements

  • PDF report export now runs in the background, so you can keep working while your reports are being generated. No more waiting around!
  • Benchmark filters now support selecting multiple values at once — power users, rejoice!
  • Codebook export validates visibility settings more strictly, preventing items with invalid display values from sneaking through.
  • Grid layout changes are automatically cleared from your browser when you navigate away — no more stale layouts reappearing unexpectedly.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed tooltip display issues on certain chart types.
  • Improved pie chart source warning behavior.
  • Fixed category axis label rendering.

DataLion Release 2025.2.187 – instant dynamic filters, per-chart filtering, smart codebook mapping

🚀 Highlights

Faster Filters — No More Page Reloads! — This is a big one. Global filters now update instantly via dynamic dropdowns. Changing a filter no longer reloads the entire page, making dashboard exploration dramatically faster and smoother. Once you try it, you won’t want to go back.

✨ What’s New

  • ⚡ Dynamic global filters: Filter dropdowns now load data on the fly and apply changes without a full page reload. Navigating large dashboards with multiple filters has never been this fast.

  • 📊 Per-chart filter menu: Each chart now has its own dedicated filter menu with AJAX-powered dropdowns — giving you granular control over individual chart data without touching the global filters.

  • 🔘 Custom buttons in filter bar: The global filter bar now supports optimized custom action buttons, giving administrators more flexibility to design the perfect filter experience for their users.

  • 🧠 Smart codebook column mapping: Importing a codebook? DataLion now suggests column mappings automatically based on your data structure — saving you time on repetitive setup work.

📈 Improvements

  • CSV import now accepts #, @, and . characters in identifiers, with clearer error messages when validation fails.
  • Login page auto-fills your email from the URL and focuses the password field — one less thing to type!
  • Password reset now shows clearer validation feedback so you know exactly what to fix.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Case numbers in sorted multistack charts now display correctly when no filters are active.
  • Fixed global filter dropdown positioning and toggle behavior.
  • Chart translations are now properly merged instead of overwritten, preserving all settings.
  • Single filter selection now correctly closes the dropdown before navigating.
  • Fixed a warning on the password reset page.

DataLion Release 2025.2.186 – friendlier chart errors, smart CSV handling, editable filters

🚀 Highlights

Friendlier Error Messages for Charts — No more staring at blank spaces wondering what went wrong. When a chart can’t load, you now get a clear, helpful message telling you exactly what happened — whether it’s a timeout, a server hiccup, or something else entirely.

✨ What’s New

  • 💬 Chart error cards: Charts that fail to load now show beautiful, user-friendly error cards. Timeout errors and server errors each get their own tailored message — no more guessing!

  • 🧹 Smart CSV column name handling: Importing a CSV with tricky column names (dots, spaces, special characters)? DataLion now offers to auto-fix them for you, or lets you cancel and correct the file yourself. Your call!

  • ✏️ Edit custom filters in place: Finally! You can now modify existing custom filters directly from the dashboard — no more deleting and recreating them from scratch.

📈 Improvements

  • PDF multi-page exports now produce higher quality output with smarter page handling.
  • Theme management is more reliable, especially in multi-tenant environments.
  • CSV delimiter detection is smarter and handles edge cases more gracefully.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Improved file path validation during data imports.
  • Fixed delimiter detection for certain CSV file formats.

The Mighty Funnel Chart 🎩✨

Ever wondered how to effectively track your customer’s journey, sales pipeline, or conversion rates? Enter the mighty Funnel Chart! 🎩✨

When to Use Funnel Charts:

  • Conversion Analysis: Perfect for visualizing stages in a sales process or customer journey, highlighting where you’re losing prospects.
  • Bottleneck Identification: Spot and address bottlenecks in processes, be it in sales, recruitment, or production workflows.
  • Path to Purchase: Track how customers move through a purchase decision, identifying key drop-off points.

How to Use Them Effectively: 🧘‍♂️ Simplicity is Key: Keep it simple. Too many stages can make the chart hard to read. 🎨 Color Coding: Use distinct colors for different stages for instant comprehension. 🔢 Contextual Data: Pair with relevant data points (like percentages or numbers) at each stage for depth and clarity.

Funnel charts aren’t just visually engaging; they are a powerhouse in conveying complex processes in an intuitive manner. 🌟

Incorporate these in your dashboards and watch your data storytelling reach new heights! 🎢📈

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The Future of Market Research – 10 Reasons why Data Visualization is Crucial!

In a world where data is ubiquitous, the clear presentation and visualization of data in market research are playing an increasingly significant role. As a leading SaaS startup in data visualization for Insights Professionals, we would like to present you with 10 compelling reasons why, in our view, data visualization is the future of market research.

  1. Instant Understanding: Data visualization allows you to transform complex and unwieldy datasets into clear and compelling graphics. At a glance, you can discern patterns, trends, outliers, and relationships. This visual approach provides an immediate grasp of information, making complex data more intuitive to understand.

  2. Effective Communication: Visualized data is more easily comprehensible and is excellent for conveying insights to teams, customers, and other stakeholders. Instead of slogging through lengthy reports, visualizations can present complex information in a more digestible form. This fosters clear communication and facilitates collaboration within organizations (and can even be enjoyable).

  3. Rapid Decision-Making: In today’s fast-paced business environment, making timely decisions is of paramount importance. With data visualization, you can make informed decisions more swiftly by analyzing data in real-time through automated imports or APIs. This enables companies to respond to shifting market conditions and customer needs before it’s too late.

  4. Understanding Customer Behavior: The ability to comprehend customer behavior is invaluable for businesses. Data visualization allows you to correlate and represent demographic data, interests, and behaviors in meaningful graphics. This supports audience segmentation and the ongoing customization of marketing strategies to cater to customer needs.

  5. Elevating Customer Satisfaction: Visualizing and benchmarking customer surveys enables you to identify weaknesses and take targeted measures for improvement. By analyzing feedback, companies can continuously enhance their products and services, ultimately increasing customer satisfaction.

  6. Competitive Advantage: In a fiercely competitive market landscape, distinguishing oneself from the competition is crucial. Data visualization empowers companies to gain valuable insights by visualizing market trends and competitor data. This helps in crafting effective competitive strategies and establishing a successful market presence.

  7. Product Development: Linking customer feedback and sales data in visualizations assists companies in identifying product improvements and new ideas. This information is pivotal for product development, allowing companies to offer products that align with their customers’ needs.

  8. Effortless Reporting: Effective reporting is an integral component of market research. With software like DataLion, you can seamlessly integrate visualizations into reports through drag-and-drop and export them as PowerPoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets with a simple click. This streamlines the communication of research findings and saves valuable time.

  9. Professional Data Visualization: The quality of visualization plays a pivotal role in data interpretation. “Smart” tools offer professional techniques for effective data visualization, including conveying clear messages, simplicity, and thoughtful color selection. These principles are essential to ensure that the created visualizations are both understandable and persuasive.

  10. Prepared for the Future: The world of data visualization is continually evolving, with even more innovations on the horizon. With the ongoing development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, data visualization tools will become even more powerful and accessible. DataLion is proud to be at the forefront of this field, assisting customers in harnessing the advantages of these advancements.

Prepare for the future of market research! Data visualization with DataLion is the key to better decision-making and the development of successful marketing strategies. Discover how DataLion can transform your business.

Whether you want to uncover complex data patterns or communicate clear insights, DataLion is your trusted partner for data-driven successes. Contact us today to learn more about how we can elevate your business to the next level in market research.

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Big Data Design Thinking

Solving problems and developing innovations for Big Data

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Data is the new oil. But while the use of oil was relatively clearly defined, there are much more possibilities in data. It’s an endless story. Almost all companies are facing the challenge of having tons of data from very heterogeneous sources. But often, they lack a clear vision of what the data could be used for. What are new business models that can be fueled with the data? Which data products can be defined and sold by the company? The solution is big data Design Thinking. Continue reading “Big Data Design Thinking”

Data visualization tips: these chart types are worth a thousand words

In Data visualization, dashboards are a great way to make sense of complex data. How effective a dashboard is, however, ultimately depends on the specific composition. In modern dashboard systems like Datalion, the compilation of charts is easy, but how to choose the right chart types? Check our Data visualization tips to make your dashboards perfectly. Continue reading “Data visualization tips: these chart types are worth a thousand words”

Machine learning: Best 4 free math books for deepening your skills

The best things in life aren’t things – but free books. At least if you want to spend the next few weeks taking your machine learning to another level. We’ve selected four great books that help you to understand one important aspect of machine learning in a very profound way. Thanks to the Open Access initiative, all of these works are available for free: Continue reading “Machine learning: Best 4 free math books for deepening your skills”

Dashboard solution: Six tips to build a perfect dashboard

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In the age of big data, business intelligence and artificial intelligence, data plays an increasingly important role for companies. Dashboard solution is now widely used, bringing data to the point and thus becoming an important basis for decision-making. If you are visualizing your data, these dashboard tips might be helpful for you.

But the optimal visualization of data still is a challenge. With the following six tips in the dashboard solution, you will be able to build a great dashboard and save time. Continue reading “Dashboard solution: Six tips to build a perfect dashboard”

KPI Reports: Unfolding the full power of KPIs in dashboards

Key performance indicators or KPIs are not just a big issue in most companies since the growing importance of business intelligence software. However, it is very controversial which KPIs actually lead to success. Which are superfluous? Which indicators are more misleading than helpful? Even dashboard solutions are an indispensable part of KPI reports, as they are the only ones that develop their full potential here. Imagine you are still late in the office finishing your presentation for the next morning’s board meeting. That’s where it helps if you can easily pull up the real-time KPI dashboard in the BI system.

DataLion KPI Info screen, KPI dashboard

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