Exploring the “Chain of Thought” Asset in Celonis Studio

Hi ​@akshay_haridas, 

I only used the asset in the preview stage, but in my opinion it is a tool for analysts to funnel down their data to insights that matter. 

When using a View to perform your analysis, users press on various filters/graph elements/table rows to slice and dice through the data, in order to find patterns, anomality's and insights. Once you found the insight, the story telling begins: How did you come to this result and why does it matter and/or does it stand out? In my experience, this was a matter of taking screenshots and paste them into a notebook or powerpoint. 

With the new Chain of Thought tool, you can make this process and visualization more interactive, making it easier for analysts to structure and share their approach. 

I didn’t use it too much yet to find pros and cons, so happy to hear from other members what their experiences are!  

Hi @Jan-Peter van der Steege,

So from your perspective, would this asset serve as a comparative analysis tool that allows two components to be evaluated in parallel with different filters or PQL logic applied? The objective would be to identify differences in the output, assess their impact, and determine which approach delivers the most accurate or relevant results.

Not sure if comparative analysis would be my main use cases, but I assume if you put two next to each other, you can use it this way! 

I would more say, as an analyst, it’s an interactive way to see how you came to your insights and show intermediate steps, instead of having 10+ filters on top of your view at the end. For example, if you want to select the product with the most revenue increase in your biggest growth market in the last month, you would end up with 3 filters and 1 value, while with the chain of thought you can have 3 different graphs visible with each it’s own filter, so that you can also see what is the 2nd and 3rd product besides this. With a hard filter, this entries are not shown.