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Ask questions in plain English with Q

A short guide framing the official AWS video on QuickSight Q, which lets you ask questions of your data in plain English and get instant answers.

Video + 3 min

Why this matters

Not everyone wants to build a dashboard or wait on someone who can. With Q, you simply type a question the way you'd ask a colleague — "What were sales last month by region?" — and get an answer in seconds. For a busy mid-market team, that means more people can explore the data themselves, without learning charts, filters, or formulas first.

What to watch for in the video

As you watch, notice a few practical things. Watch how a question is typed into the Q search bar and how Q chooses a sensible chart on its own — a number, a bar, a trend line — based on what you asked.

Pay attention to how you can refine a question: changing a date range, swapping a measure, or drilling into a category just by adjusting your wording. Also notice that Q works best when the underlying data is well organised and clearly named, which is what makes those plain-English answers accurate.

How it connects to your Intellova dashboards

Because Intellova brings your business's data together into one place, the questions you ask Q can draw on the full picture — sales, customers, and operations side by side — rather than one isolated spreadsheet. That unified, tidy foundation is exactly what helps Q understand your terms and return answers you can trust, turning the dashboards you already have into something you can simply talk to.

Introduction to QuickSight Q (AWS)
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