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Best practices and guidelines on how to ask Vee for Partners questions.

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Who can use this feature?

Users with this permission capability:

  • Vee

Not sure if you have this feature or capability? Reach out to your administrator.

To access Vee:

  • Click Ask Vee on the navigation bar.

Ask Vee

Use the following workflow as guidance when chatting with Vee.

  1. Enter a question in plain language or click the Sample questions button to explore the types of questions Vee can answer.

  2. Review the answer:
    • View the visualization that is generated.
    • Inspect the response to see what analytic objects were used in the answer. When inspecting, you can try a different metric, tweak added filters, or replace them with something new.
    • If Vee needs more context to answer your question, it will pose a clarifying question for you to review and proceed. Vee may suggest alternative questions, metrics, or dimensions.

  3. Ask a follow-up question. Vee retains your current chat history, so you don't need to worry about retyping the whole question from scratch. You can ask multiple questions to delve deeper into a single inquiry.

    • Drill down further by entering another question or selecting one of the suggestions. For example: What about last month?
    • If the response isn't quite what you are looking for, you can adjust the result by suggesting changes and edits. Vee will refine its response based on the additional information. For example: Group by Organization or I meant Jason K
  4. Provide feedback to the generated response by clicking the Helpful button or Wasn't Helpful button .
  5. To start a new conversation, click Reset in the upper-right corner of the screen.

What can Vee do?

Ask Vee any question about your workforce and it will try to provide an answer based on your organization’s people data. It excels in providing answers about current events and past occurrences. Questions starting with "which," "where," "how," and "who" are typically well-suited for Vee's capabilities.

Vee can:

  • Pinpoint potential reasons for fluctuations in metrics, whether they are on the rise or decline.
  • Examine aggregate data or provide detailed profiles of individual employees.
  • Combine multiple metrics to help you grasp relationships and correlations.
  • Suggest additional questions or alternative ways to analyze the data you've requested.
  • Demonstrate contextual awareness, allowing you to use multiple questions and delve deeper into a single inquiry. It can handle spelling errors and most language nuances effectively.

Write effective questions

Generative AI models are powerful but may not always produce perfect output. Effective questions can help guide the model to provide more relevant and accurate responses. Vee offers prebuilt questions for your convenience, but if you seek deeper insights, we recommend following these guidelines:

  • Be clear and specific: Clearly state the question you want answered. For example, if you want to know who among the top performers is more likely to leave the company, ask Which high performers have the greatest risk of leaving in the next year? instead of Which employees are showing signs of leaving soon?
  • Provide context: Additional context or background information can help narrow the response, especially if it refers to a specific topic or scenario.
  • Avoid ambiguous questions: If there's room for multiple interpretations, Vee may not provide the answer you want.
  • Ask follow-up questions: To get a more detailed response, you can ask follow-up questions. For example, if you receive a general answer, you can follow up with: Please show me that over time or Filtered to managers only.
  • Be mindful of ethical considerations: Ensure that your questions are in line with Visier's Acceptable Use Policy and ethical guidelines.
  • Review and filter output: Always review the generated output to ensure it meets your requirements. You can filter, edit, or moderate the content as necessary.
  • Experiment and iterate: Don't be afraid to experiment with different questions and phrasing. Vee may respond differently to slight variations in questions. Iterate and refine your questions to get the best results.
  • Practice and learn: Writing effective questions will take practice. The more you use Vee and experiment with different questions, the better you'll become at getting the desired results.
  • Ask one question at a time: If a question contains two parts, split them into separate questions. For example, instead of asking What is my headcount and how is it changing?, begin with What is my headcount? and then ask a follow-up question How is it changing?

Here are some phrases you can use to craft your questions:

Phrases

Examples

Show me

Show me headcount

Filter for

Filter for high performers

By
  • Show me exits by job
  • Show me exits by quarter

Combine with

Combine with Compensation Ratio

Remove/Exclude
  • Remove unknown
  • Exclude unknown

Limitations

  • If a question cannot be answered from your organization’s people data, you will need to load that data before Vee can answer your question.
  • If a question is asked that has no clear relationship to what Visier could answer, we rely on the large language model to provide the translation. That translation may not always be accurate but will still return a reasonable result.

    Example:  

    If you ask the question: How many managers do I have in each department? and your organization does not have a dimension called Department, the closest match will be used. In this example, the closest match is Organization Hierarchy or Cost Center Hierarchy so you may receive a response that uses the Manager Count metric or Manager Ratio metric grouped by Organization Hierarchy or Cost Center Hierarchy. If the answer is not what you expected, you can ask Vee to use another metric or dimension or tune Vee to reply with the dimension you were intending for. For more information, see Tune Vee.