Here's everything new and improved in Golden Analytics this week.
New users can now sign up for Golden Analytics directly from the login page without needing an invitation. Enter your company name and email, and you'll receive a verification email to complete setup and start your trial.
When a dashboard is shared via link, recipients now see a clean standalone viewer — no editor chrome, just the dashboard with zoom controls, a collapsible filter bar, and an Edit button for users with access. The viewer starts fit-to-page and supports pinch/scroll zoom and pan, matching the editor experience.
A new "Why did this change?" button appears on charts and KPI metrics. Click it to run a Key Driver Analysis — Golden automatically identifies which dimensions are most correlated with changes in your metric and surfaces them as a ranked breakdown. Available directly from the chart toolbar and from KPI cards on dashboards.
Maps now work with datasets that have explicit latitude and longitude columns. Golden detects lat/lon field pairs automatically and plots them directly on the map without geocoding — so datasets with GPS coordinates, store locations, or any precise coordinate data render instantly. Country-name geocoding and map tooltips have also been fixed.
Bar charts with multiple categorical dimensions on an axis now show nested hierarchy strips again — for example, a bar chart with Region and State will show Region grouping strips spanning the relevant State bars. This was broken after a chart library upgrade and is now fully restored.
The multi-table relationship editor (Entity Relationship Diagram) has been redesigned. A collapsible side panel replaces the cramped bottom panel, relationships are now added and edited via a proper dialog with a live cardinality preview, and you can wire columns together by dragging from one to another. Relationship lines are clickable for quick edit or delete.
CSV files up to 500,000 rows now load and open for analysis significantly faster. A redundant full-table re-scan that ran after every upload has been eliminated — on a 1.5M-row file this was taking up to 25 seconds and has been removed entirely.