Google Sheets' new AI feature Gemini: Simplify data analysis and visualization

Google officially launched Sheets' Gemini AI upgrade to all Workspace business users, which significantly simplifies the data analysis process and enhances the visualization of spreadsheets. Although the company announced the update last month, Friday's statement confirmed that the feature is now fully launched, bringing an AI-powered data processing experience to business users.

With this upgrade, users can leverage Gemini's artificial intelligence capabilities to quickly extract key insights from spreadsheet data, including correlation analysis, trend recognition and outlier detection. This feature is especially suitable for scenarios that require in-depth data mining, such as marketing effectiveness evaluation and financial data analysis. Gemini also brings enhanced data visualization to Sheets. Users can now generate advanced charts such as heat maps and insert them directly into spreadsheet cells as static images, making the data expression more intuitive and convincing.

The method of using these new features is very simple. Users simply click on the Gemini icon in the upper right corner of the spreadsheet and then propose data analysis needs in natural language. Google provides several practical scenario examples, such as financial forecasting "Forecasting Net Income for the Next Quarter based on historical data", customer support analysis "Creating a heat map of support cases by category and device", marketing performance evaluation "Analyzing conversion rates for the three best performing channels", and inventory management "Identifying whether there are abnormalities in product inventory levels."

Google revealed that Gemini implements complex multi-layer analysis by creating and running Python code, while for simpler requests, it may be calculated using traditional formulas. To ensure accurate results, Google recommends that users’ data should be in a consistent format, contain clear titles, and avoid missing values. This upgrade represents another important milestone in Google's integration of artificial intelligence technology into productivity tools, aiming to help business users process and understand data more efficiently.