Displayr Roadmap

The what and why behind what we're building to improve Displayr

Coming soon

  • In Development

    • ・Import CSV as tables
    • ・Performance Improvements
    • ・Rounded corners on bar/column charts
    • ・Maximized view of Tables and Calculations
    • ・User, Billing, and License Management redesign

    In Planning

    • ・Importing from SQL Databases as tables
    • ・Importing Google Sheets as tables
    • ・Bigger data, non-survey data
    • ・Easier to use and customize visualizations
2024
UPGRADED FEATURE
June

New Code editing experience in Displayr

The new code editing panel makes it much easier to view and edit your R code. It is also easily resizable to suit your needs.

NEW FEATURE
April

Import Excel tables as a Data Source

Excel workbooks can now be imported as Tables (excel tables) or a Data Set (raw data)

NEW FEATURE
April

Displayr UI Refresh

Displayr's UI has been redesigned, enhancing user experience with a cleaner, more intuitive interface to streamline navigation, optimize efficiency.

NEW FEATURE
April

Introducing Displayr AI

Displayr AI leverages new generative AI technology to assist in automatic text categorization, summarizing variable set labels and creating suitable new variable set labels when combining variables.

UPGRADED FEATURE
March

Export to Excel with charts

Automatically export a chart alongside your tables in Excel exports.

NEW FEATURE
March

Update existing Excel spreadsheets using Displayr

Save time by updating your existing Excel spreadsheets. Any tables previously exported from Displayr and any charts or ad hoc calculations present in the spreadsheet will be retained, while any new tables are appended to the report.

NEW FEATURE
February

Unicom Intelligence Integration

You can now import your data directly from the Unicom Intelligence platform. Simply click on Add a data set, then click on the Unicom Intelligence logo and follow the prompts.

2023
NEW FEATURE
December

Page Numbering

Add Page Numbers to your report, which will update automatically whenever you add, delete, reorder, or hide pages in your report

UPGRADED FEATURE
December

Cell Selections and Formatting for Calculation Tables

Calculation Tables now allow you to select individual cells and customize the formatting of each cell.

NEW FEATURE
November

Copy and Paste Variable Set Labels

Quickly and easily bulk update variable set labels by using Copy/Paste Labels

UPGRADED FEATURE
November

Calculation Tables rendered as Variable Set Tables

Calculation Tables are now styled in the same way that tables made from Variable Sets are.

NEW FEATURE
September

Variable Set Folders

Organize your variable sets into folders!

NEW FEATURE
August

Freeze Rows and Columns on Tables

Freeze row and/or column headers on tables to make viewing large tables easier

NEW FEATURE
June

Views

Save the values of your controls on view mode dashboards using Views. Quickly and easily switch between these Views to explore your data

NEW FEATURE
June

Calculation grids

A new type of table that can be a mix of text, values, or calculations.

NEW FEATURE
February

Automatic translation when categorizing text

Translate and categorize text data in the same workflow

NEW FEATURE
February

Add Captions to R Tables and R Visualizations

R Tables and Visualizations linked to a Displayr table can have the caption from that table piped through. Simply select the R item, Properties > Caption > Show Below

2022
UPGRADED FEATURE
December

Faster Categorization of Text Data

Displayr's "Semi-Automatic" text categorization creates a draft code frame and assigns responses for you up front - you just need to fine tune the code frame and it's ready to go. Text categorization algorithms also significantly upgraded, including those for multiple response code frames and spontaneous brand awareness questions.

NEW FEATURE
December

Bar Chart with Skews

Automatically add call outs or labels on a classic bar chart that summarize interesting differences in the detailed data.

UPGRADED FEATURE
December

Faster Banner Variables

Banners are now created and calculated using internal logic language rather than JavaScript, so they work a lot faster, especially with large data files

UPGRADED FEATURE
November

Enhanced Caption Functionality

Captions (formerly known as 'Footers') can be hidden, shown, and custom formatted, either by individual item or default.

UPGRADED FEATURE
November

Enhanced automatic categorization of text data.

"Semi-Automatic" text categorization creates a draft codeframe and assigns responses - users just need to fine tune, edit. Algorithms also significantly upgraded, including for multiple response codeframes and spontaneous brand awareness questions.

NEW FEATURE
August

Paste Embedded Objects

Embed an item (e.g. chart, table) from one Displayr document in another, 'Paste > Paste as Embedded Object'. It will then update when the originating document is updated and republished (Publish > Embed Object > Update All Embeds). Share outputs across documents without the need to duplicate the source data.

NEW FEATURE
August

Google Analytics Tracking

Learn how audiences interact with your Displayr dashboards so you can improve them over time

NEW FEATURE
June

Multiple R Variables

Create multiple numeric variables in a single line of code.

NEW FEATURE
May

Contrast Periods

Easily convert dates to a new variable that allows you to compare custom time periods, calculate differences, apply significance tests, etc

NEW FEATURE
May

Memory Profiler

Generate a memory map, to identify ways to make documents more efficient

UPGRADED FEATURE
May

Show Significance on More Visualization Types

Significance highlights can now be added to R versions of Bar, Column, Line and Radar visualizations

NEW FEATURE
May

Transform Variables Automatically

Automatically combine numeric variables into categories, collapse variables based on patterns in the data, or convert one type of geographic variable into another.

NEW FEATURE
May

Custom or Planned Significance Tests

Go beyond Displayr's automated significance highlighting and test specific hypotheses or results contained within a table

NEW FEATURE
April

Impute Missing Values

Configure Displayr's algorithm to estimate and impute missing values

NEW FEATURE
March

Automatically Hide Non Significant Rows and Columns

Quickly simplify an otherwise complex cross-tab without the need to manually select and hide rows and columns, to help build the story in your data. See: Properties > RULES > Modify Whole Table or Plot

NEW FEATURE
March

Add Calculations Directly to Visualization Drop-Downs

Save workflow steps (and therefore time) and speed up your documents by adding values, custom formulas, custom selections etc. directly into the drop down boxes when you build visualizations:

NEW FEATURE
March

Animate when presenting in View mode

A basic animation function allows you to build presentations a step at a time in View mode

UPGRADED FEATURE
February

Advanced Significance Testing

More customization of statistical tests and how they are displayed

NEW FEATURE
February

Dependency Graph

Graphical representation of dependencies for any output and downstream outputs, to help navigate and optimize performance

NEW FEATURE
January

Custom Fonts

Add any true-type font to use in Displayr documents and exports.

A Continued Focus on Speed and Larger Data Sets

2021
NEW FEATURE
November

Format Painter

Popular in other design applications (like PowerPoint) this functionality has now been added to Displayr's menu bar. Just select an object, click Format Painter, then paste to another object (double click for multi-pasting)

NEW FEATURE
November

PowerPoint-like Text in Shapes

Rectangular shapes now have text properties, with full formatting capability. Text boxes can also be converted to Shapes with formatting properties.

NEW FEATURE
October

Easy calculation and formula creation

Point-and-click to easily create calculations or formulas from your variables, tables, and other calculations.

(Calculate Anything) (Bespoke Analysis)

UPGRADED FEATURE
September

Enhanced Crosstab Reports

Easily create lots of crosstabs, then automatically sort them by significance or automatically remove tables that don't satisfy significance or sample size thresholds

UPGRADED FEATURE
September

Integrated Chart/Visualization Selector

View all charting and visualizations in one gallery and make your selection. Easily switch tables and visualizations, or one visualization to another

UPGRADED FEATURE
September

Qualtrics Integration - Automatic updates

Improved functionality when importing Qualtrics data

NEW FEATURE
August

Default and Custom Templates Gallery

Displayr now features a range of default templates to get you up and running quickly - you can edit them as required; you can even create your own "on-brand" templates and add them to the gallery

UPGRADED FEATURE
August

New Weighting Dialog

Displayr makes it easy to create, edit, and optimize weights for your data set, from the simple to the complex.

NEW FEATURE
August

Custom Analyses in Menu

Enterprise customers can save items (as QScripts and RScripts) to the Displayr Cloud Drive and have them available for later use via their own company menu extension.

NEW FEATURE
July

Data Merging

Displayr will read in (multiple) files with new cases or new variables and merge them with the current file. You can then fine tune by nominating specific items to be merged or change the level of fuzzy-matching

NEW FEATURE
July

Sort Tables to Show Patterns

Displayr now makes it even easier to tell the story in a data table, you can automatically sort the rows, columns or both, based on patterns of significance.

NEW FEATURE
June

Dynamic Text Box

Insert boxes that allow you to create text with number references that automatically update when the data changes.

UPGRADED FEATURE
June

Enhanced Calculations Menu

Automatically divide, count, average, sum from selected variables, tables, columns or rows, and much more.

NEW FEATURE
June

Customize Rules in Displayr

You can customize Displayr's suite of Rules using the in-built editor.

NEW FEATURE
June

Publish Data Files

You can export or publish data files (*.csv, *.sav), reflecting any edits made to the data in Displayr

NEW FEATURE
June

Raw Data Editor

View and edit raw data Directly in Displayr - check for irregularities, clean data, publish filtered data extracts, and more

UPGRADED FEATURE
June

Simplification of User Interface

Substantial streamlining of menus and tool bars, powerful new functions added, better in-app learning, and faster

NEW FEATURE
May

Data Stacking

Displayr will automatically read in variables that can be stacked and create a stacked file. Once set up the stacked file can be automatically updated when the source data changes

UPGRADED FEATURE
April

Graphical Interface for Filter Creation

A New Filter Dialog box added, [ Anything | Filtering | New ], making filter creation easier, including filters with complex conditions.

NEW FEATURE
April

Pasting Images, Text, Data Tables using the clipboard

Copy images, text from elsewhere and paste directly into Displayr via the clipboard. You can also copy and paste tables from Excel

Read more
NEW FEATURE
April

R-Outputs displayed as tables exportable and editable in PowerPoint

Any R-Outputs displayed as tables can now be exported to PowerPoint and edits can be made. If you later update your PowerPoint report (e.g. if the data has changed), the table will update and edits made in PowerPoint retained.

Read more
NEW FEATURE
March

Easy Creation of Table Subsets

Extract the rows and/or columns that you want from a table to form a new one, without the need to duplicate or create new variables

Read more
NEW FEATURE
March

Rules for Displayr Tables and Charts

Displayr's version of conditional formatting. Allows customization of the content and appearance of tables and charts: conditional cell coloring, sorting, rearranging columns, and much more. Take Table and Chart automation to a whole new level

Read more

A Continued Focus on Speed and Larger Data Sets

2020
NEW FEATURE
December

*.Qdat Files

A compressed version of your data set that combines the raw variables with any additional variables created. All variables are effectively hard-coded in the new *.Qdat data set. This and the compressed format improves performance.

Read more
NEW FEATURE
November

Export editable charts to PowerPoint

It's now possible to export editable charts to PowerPoint and automatically update them when the data changes.

Read more
NEW FEATURE
October

Update existing PowerPoint presentations using Displayr

Save time and improve data accuracy by automatically updating existing PowerPoint reports with the latest set of data

Read more
NEW FEATURE
August

List Box, Combo and Text Filters

Displayr makes it easy to create interactive filters and automatically connect them to existing outputs.  

Read more
NEW FEATURE
July

Decipher Integration

You can now import survey data from the popular survey platform, Decipher – simply select ‘Data Sets’ -> ‘+’ (or Anything -> Data -> Data Set -> Add) and enter your Decipher Base URL and API Token

Read more
UPGRADED FEATURE
April

Adding Stat Tests and Other Annotations to Visualizations

Stat testing symbols and letters and other annotations, such as text, circles, shading, and boxes, can now be added to visualizations

Read more
UPGRADED FEATURE
April

Jaccard Coefficient/Index

The Jaccard Coefficient is now available as an option when conducting driver analysis

Read more
NEW FEATURE
April

New and Easy-to-Find Variable Transformations

Variables can now be transformed (e.g., standardized, natural logs), with the click of a button.

Read more
NEW FEATURE
April

Host Data in a Country or Region or Your Choice

Enterprise customers can specify the country where their data is hosted

Read more
NEW FEATURE
April

Translate Text Variables into Different Languages

Translate any text variable into another language (e.g., mutliple input languages to English)

Read more
NEW FEATURE
March

Segment Comparison Table

A new type of table for comparing difference between a segmentation, or any other categorical variable, on lots of different variables.

Read more
UPGRADED FEATURE
March

Automatic Language Translation with Automatic Categorization

Set input and output languages when automatically categorizing text (e.g., automatically translate your Chinese text data into a categorization in English or German)

Read more
NEW FEATURE
March

Principal Component Analysis of Text Data

Automatically identify patterns in text data using PCA (factor analysis) designed for text data

Read more
NEW FEATURE
February

Automatic Price Sensitivity Meter

A price sensitivity meter plot is automatically generated from the raw data (Insert > More > Marketing > Price Sensitivity Meter)

Read more
UPGRADED FEATURE
February

Automatic Removal of Outliers from Driver Analysis, Regression, and GLMs

A new option called 'Automated outlier removal percentage' controls the percentage of outliers automatically removed.

NEW FEATURE
Feb

Audit Trail for Users

See who has accessed your documents and made changes to your account’s users in Displayr.

Read more
NEW FEATURE
Feb

Shapley Regression

You can now run Shapley Regression in Displayr.

Learn more
NEW FEATURE
Jan

Automatically Export Batched Reports to PowerPoint

Save time and effort by automatically exporting multiple, filtered reports in one go.

Learn more
UPGRADED FEATURE
Jan

Simplification of Driver Analysis

Automation of standard driver analysis setup and outputs: stacking and quad maps

Read more

A Continued Focus on Speed and Larger Data Sets

2019
NEW FEATURE
Nov

Displayr Cloud Drive

Access to a secure cloud-based storage space for storing and sharing files, making them easier and more efficient to use in Displayr – images, Microsoft chart templates, data, any files really …. even R Outputs (that you want to re-use). 

UPGRADED FEATURE
Nov

Point and Click Filtering with Date Variables

When a filter is created in Displayr by clicking the New filter button, date variables can be selected and you can choose specific date ranges as well as time ranges (e.g., last 3 months)

Read more
UPGRADED FEATURE
Oct

Fully-Automated Text Analysis Improvements

With the latest machine learning breakthroughs, text data can now be categorized more accurately.

See list of improvements
UPGRADED FEATURE
Sep

Hyperlinks Update

Now it's easy to assign hyperlinks that link out to different pages within the document, as well as forward and back according to your browser.

Read more
UPGRADED FEATURE
Sep

Improved Text Analysis Capabilities

Semi-automated and fully-automated text analysis are now available.

See what they are

Automatic Brand Health Tables

UPGRADED FEATURE
Jul

Automated Creation Of Lots Of Crosstabs

See list of upgrades
UPGRADED FEATURE
Jul

Refreshed User Interface

The Displayr app gained a fresh, new look.

NEW FEATURE
Jun

Copying And Pasting Between Documents Enabled

No need to build from scratch again! We have developed the ability to copy and paste items between different pages, and even across different dashboards.

NEW FEATURE
Jun

Create Templates For Colors And Fonts In Visualizations

You can now create templates that make it easy to update the look and feel of multiple visualizations at once.

Read more
NEW FEATURE
May

New Weighting Tools: Rim Weighting And Weighting To Market Share

Find out more or check out the eBook

NEW FEATURE
Apr

New Automatic Transformations

Top 2 boxes, midpoints, NPS, case-level shares, etc.

NEW FEATURE
Apr

New Controls To Allow Users In View Mode To Interact With Dashboards

See list
NEW FEATURE
Apr

TURF Analysis,

Includes New Visualizations

Read more
UPGRADED FEATURE
Apr

Automatic Tools For Checking And Setting Up A Table

Identifying data checking, flat-lining, data file errors, etc.

UPGRADED FEATURE
Mar

Conjoint Improvement

We made doing conjoint analysis even better

Read more

Resize multiple selected images on a page

Increased speed

Fully-Automated Text Analysis Improvements

UPGRADED FEATURE
Jan

New Visualizations

See list
UPGRADED FEATURE | April 2020

Adding Stat Tests and Other Annotations to Visualizations

For more info, see: Adding Significance Tests and Other Annotations to Visualizations

UPGRADED FEATURE | April 2020

Jaccard Coefficient/Index

To compute the Jaccard Coefficient, click Insert > Regression > Driver Analysis, and change Output to Jaccard Correlation.

Stat testing, both against the assumption of independence and comparisons between groups is also available.

For more information see Driver Analysis in Displayr.

NEW FEATURE | April 2020

New and Easy-to-Find Variable Transformations

When a variable or variable set is selected, recommended transformations appear on the right of the screen. They may also be selected using Insert > Transform (Variables).

Click here for a blog post discussing how these transformations can be used in market segmentation.

NEW FEATURE | April 2020

Host Data in a Country or Region or Your Choice

See the post Host Data in a Country of Your Choice

NEW FEATURE | April 2020

Translate Text Variables into Different Languages

See the post Automatic Language Translation of Text Variables

NEW FEATURE | March 2020

Segment Comparison Table

Insert > Group/Segment > Segment Comparison Table. You can read more about it here: https://www.displayr.com/tools-for-evaluating-segmentations/

UPGRADED FEATURE | March 2020

Automatic Language Translation with Automatic Categorization

See the post Automatic Language Translation with Automatic Categorization

NEW FEATURE | March 2020

Principal Component Analysis of Text Data

This is available in Insert > Text Analysis > Advanced.

See the post Principal component analysis of text data

NEW FEATURE | February 2020

Automatic Price Sensitivity Meter

See the post What is the price sensitivity meter?

UPGRADED FEATURE | February 2020

Automatic Removal of Outliers from Driver Analysis, Regression, and GLMs

See the post Automatic Removal of Outliers from Regression and GLMs

NEW FEATURE | Feb 2020

Audit Trail for Users

See the post How to Audit Access to your Displayr Documents and Users

NEW FEATURE | Jan 2020

Automatically Export Batched Reports to PowerPoint

See the post How to Automatically Export Multiple Reports with Different Filters

UPGRADED FEATURE | Jan 2020

Simplification of Driver Analysis

NEW FEATURE | Nov 2019

Displayr Cloud Drive

Access to a secure cloud-based storage space for storing and sharing files, making them easier and more efficient to use in Displayr – images, Microsoft chart templates, data, any files really …. even R Outputs (that you want to re-use).

Read more
UPGRADED FEATURE | Nov 2019

Point and Click Filtering with Date Variables

When you select a table, chart, or other output and click FILTERS & WEIGHTS > NEW and select a date variable for Data you can now choose to create a dynamic filter (e.g., filtering for the last 3 months, which will update when the data changes) or filter for specific ranges.

Find out more
UPGRADED FEATURE | Oct 2019

Fully-Automated Text Analysis Improvements

  • Automatically classify new data to an existing code frame (single response and multiple response)
  • Entity extraction
  • N-grams (Phrase detection)
Find out more
UPGRADED FEATURE | Sep 2019

Hyperlinks Update

Now it’s easy to assign hyperlinks that link out to different pages within the document, as well as forward and back according to your browser.

Find out more
UPGRADED FEATURE | Jul 2019

Automated Creation Of Lots Of Crosstabs

  • Automatic restructuring of data for crosstabs (e.g., flattening of grids)
  • Automatic sorting of tables
  • Automatic deletion of uninteresting tables
Find out more
NEW FEATURE | Jun 2019

Create Templates For Colors And Fonts In Visualizations

When it comes to brand, consistency is king. You can now create templates that make it easy to update the look and feel of multiple visualizations at once, from the color series being used, to the size of the data labels.

NEW FEATURE | Apr 2019

New Controls To Allow Users In View Mode To Interact With Dashboards

  • Text boxes
  • List boxes
  • Date controls
Find out more
NEW FEATURE | Apr 2019

TURF Analysis,

  • Incrementality plot
  • Upset plot
UPGRADED FEATURE | Mar 2019

Conjoint Improvement

UPGRADED FEATURE | Jan 2019

New Visualizations

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