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Dashboard

The Dashboard is your bird's-eye view of your workspace — how much of your data has been analysed, what your highlights are revealing, and who's been doing what. You'll find it under Dashboard in the main left panel.

It has two tabs:

  • General — headline numbers, AI-generated findings, and topic trends.

  • Activity — a live feed of everything happening across your workspace.

Almost everything on the Dashboard is built from your highlights. If you haven't created highlights yet, most of the General tab will be empty — the Annotate Now widget is where you get started.


General Tab

The main view. It opens with a row of headline stats, then gives you AI-generated findings, topic trends, and sentiment breakdowns drawn from your highlights.

Headline stats

A strip of five cards across the top:

  • Total Datasets — how many publishing datasets you've set up.

  • Total Documents — total published documents across all datasets.

  • % Analysed — the share of your published documents that carry at least one highlight (highlighted documents ÷ total published documents). Hover the ring for a short explainer.

  • Reports Created — number of published reports.

  • Time Saved — an estimate of the time AI-assisted work has saved you, adding up auto highlights, AI suggestions, manual highlights, document summaries, and reports. Hover for the breakdown.

Annotate Now

If some documents haven't been highlighted yet, the Annotate Now widget tells you how many are pending — for example, "12 documents across 3 datasets haven't been highlighted yet." Click Annotate Now and the AI highlights them all in one go.

The button shows live progress — Queuing… → Annotating… → Annotate Now — and keeps running even if you reload or switch tabs. When everything's done, you'll see an "all done" banner.

The Annotate Now widget only appears if AI highlighting is enabled for your workspace. If you don't see it, your documents may already be highlighted, or the feature may not be turned on — check with your Dots representative.

Findings

Findings are short, plain-language statements the AI writes about what your highlights are saying — each one a heading plus a sentence, backed by a real quote from your data.

  • Use the dataset selector in the header to focus on specific datasets, or leave it on all of them.

  • Each finding shows an optional "N docs" tag, a heading, and a sentence.

  • Click any finding to open the evidence drawer on the right, where every supporting quote appears as a card with attribute badges (sentiment, intent, certainty, and so on).

Findings appear once you have enough highlights for the AI to spot a pattern; until then you'll see a short "no findings yet" message.

Freshness

The Freshness widget shows which tags are trending up (Fresh) or down (Stale) in how often they're used — a quick read on what's gaining or losing attention in your data.

  • Pick a theme to focus on and an interval (hour, day, week, month, or year — defaults to month).

  • You'll see a Fresh-vs-Stale bar, plus two small charts: top gainers in green, top losers in pink.

Sentiment Topics

Two widgets — Top Positive Topics and Top Negative Topics — rank the themes most associated with positive and negative sentiment in your highlights, shown as bar charts.

Click any bar to open a drill-down panel of the highlights behind it, so you can read the actual quotes driving each topic.


Activity Tab

The Activity tab is a running, reverse-chronological feed of everything happening across your workspace — a simple way to see who did what, and when.

Each row shows the person, the type of content, a plain-language description, and the date. It covers:

  • documents created, published, submitted, or moderated

  • comments, reactions, and mentions

  • batch imports

  • AI and auto highlights

  • reports created or updated

  • tag changes

Most rows link straight to the item involved — a document, a report, or a dataset listing — so you can jump from the feed to the thing itself. More rows load as you scroll.


Looking for prevalence and co-occurrence?

Cross-cutting tag analysis — prevalence, co-occurrence, and more — now lives in the Highlights Explorer, where you can filter your highlights and explore those patterns in depth. See Highlights Explorer.


Tips

  • Read findings, then check the evidence. Findings are a fast way in, but open the drawer and sense-check the quotes before repeating a finding elsewhere.

  • Use Freshness to catch what's changing. Rising tags often point to emerging themes worth a closer look in the Highlights Explorer.

  • Let sentiment topics point the way. The positive and negative rankings are a quick route to your strongest reactions — drill in to read why.

The Dashboard is in beta — metrics, layout, and information architecture are still being actively developed, so expect things to change as we keep improving it. Feedback is very welcome.

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