Getting started with Spotter

Welcome to ThoughtSpot Spotter! This article takes you through how to get up and running with Spotter.

Prerequisites

  • To use ThoughtSpot Spotter, you must have a user account. This is created by your Spotter administrator. Once your user account is created, you will receive an email inviting you to join a trial of ThoughtSpot.

  • To use your own data, you must have your data stored in one of the supported cloud data warehouses. For details, see Adding data sources in Spotter.

First-time setup

To start using Spotter for the first time, do the following:

  1. In the email invitation from ThoughtSpot, click Join now.

  2. In your web browser, the Welcome to ThoughtSpot Spotter page appears.

  3. Create your Spotter password by doing the following:

    1. Enter your business email address.

    2. Create a password.

    3. Confirm your password.

    4. Click Start Now.

      The Welcome back page in Spotter appears.

      spotter first time sign in

Trying out Spotter

When you sign in to Spotter for the first time, you see the chat interface at the bottom of the page, with sample prompts above it. You can click one of the sample prompts to ask that question, or you can enter your own question.

By default, Spotter includes the following datasets which you can use to practice asking questions:

  • Apparel Retail

  • PetSpot

  • Hockey Store - Web Marketing

  • Support Ops

To use chat in Spotter, do the following:

  1. Choose the dataset you want to use, by selecting it from the menu above the chat field.

    spotter select data set
    To help you formulate a question to ask, you can see a sample from the dataset itself by clicking Preview data.

  2. Enter a question in the chat field, and click the submit button Submit chat.

    spotter enter question

    Spotter provides an AI-generated answer to the question.

    spotter ai answer

    You can do the following things with the AI-generated answer:

    • To make changes to the answer, click Edit next to the search tokens.

    • To switch between chart and table view, click the table/chart toggle button table chart toggle.

    • To download the answer in PNG, XLSX, or CSV format, click Download.

    • To view the SQL query used to generate the answer, click View SQL.

    • To let Spotter know if it got the answer right, do the following:

      • To approve, click the check mark spotter approve mapping grey.

      • To reject, click the X spotter reject mapping grey.

    • To save the history of your chat, click the Save link above the search field. After you save your chat once, each additional question you ask, and the answer, are saved automatically. You can access them later in the Saved Chats section of the Spotter page.

    • To start a new chat, click + New chat.

      You can continue to ask as many follow-up questions as you want.

Next steps

Now that you’ve tried out Spotter, you’re ready to add your own data source and start using Spotter to get answers from your data. For details, see Adding data sources in Spotter.

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