🪛 Drilling from published apps and Explore
“Why did this spike happen?” “Why does my data look like this?” We’ve all had those moments — staring at a published app, wishing we could dig into the underlying data to answer our follow-up questions or sanity-check a surprising trend.
With drilling, now you can. Just click on the bar (or point, or slice) you’re curious about, choose how you want to break it down, and Hex will take you straight into a drilled-down exploration.
From there, you can keep drilling to get more granular — then, drill up to return to a higher-level grouping. No need to add filters, replace axes, or wrestle with your data. Hex takes care of the busywork, so you can zoom in and out easily.
Editor and Explorer seats on Team and Enterprise plans can drill from charts in published apps, explorations, and pivots in Explore cells. Give it a spin, and let us know what you think!
🎨 Custom app themes
When you’re presenting a production dashboard to execs, the last thing you want is to get derailed by a styling nit-pick because the font is off. 🫠
Now on Team and Enterprise plans, Admins can create custom app themes with your team’s font, background and accent colors, and a chart color palette for a branded look and feel.
Editors can apply custom app themes in the app builder to unify branding, create a consistent experience for stakeholders, and yes — finally get your charts to match those PowerPoint slides!
🔮 Ask Magic in Explore
ICYMI, we shared a private preview of Ask Magic in Explore last month — a conversational AI interface deeply integrated with Hex, your data, and your workflows.
Magic helps you get to insights faster by drafting analyses from scratch, surfacing relevant published apps, editing existing explorations, and even answering questions right in Slack.
We’re looking for more beta customers to kick around the tires, so drop us a note at [email protected] if you’re interested in early access.
📸 Copy chart to clipboard
We’ve built a lot of features into Hex to help close the Sharing Gap and champion a noscreenshots.club culture. But sometimes, a static, point-in-time image is called for.
Until now, grabbing an image from a published app meant right-click gymnastics that left out the legend and title, or keyboard shortcuts that flood your desktop with a bajillion screenshots.
Now, there’s a built-in button that lets anyone copy an image of the entire chart straight to the clipboard. Perfect for sharing in Slack, slides, docs, or anywhere static visuals go to live their best life.
All we ask is that you consider embedding first — for fresh data, better reproducibility, and those nifty on-hover tooltips. 😉
🔍 Search across semantic models
Since launching Semantic Model Sync, we’ve seen teams connect their dbt MetricFlow and Cube models to power governed, self-serve metrics in Explore — allowing stakeholders to answer their own questions with confidence.
Now, we’re making it easier to navigate those imported semantic models. You can search for dimensions and measures inside models from the data browser, and jump straight into an exploration from the search results.
📊 Chart sorting improvements
We’ve expanded sorting capabilities to make chart behavior more consistent. Now, when you switch from a bar chart to a line chart (or any other flavor), your x-axis sort stays put.
Sort categorical x-axes any way you like for all chart types and series types (including line, area, multi-series, and dual y-axis). Also, pie charts now support custom and size-based sorting. 🥧
More improvements to sorting logic are on the way (including color and facet sorting), so stay tuned. In the meantime, let us know if you have any feedback!
🔑 Magic bring your own key (BYOK)
On the Enterprise plan, Admins can now plug in their own OpenAI API Key for Magic’s model calls for all inference and generation requests. BYOK is a great option if you’re looking for more control over governance and billing. Just head over to your Magic settings page to try it out.
Other improvements
- Python 3.11 with Pandas 2.0 is now available as a kernel in your project dropdown, and it’s the default for new projects.
- EU data residency support for Magic: We now support full EU data residency, helping customers in Europe meet local data sovereignty requirements when using Magic.
- Improved default labels for weekly data: Charts with weekly datetime buckets used to default to labels like ”2025 W14” (kinda cryptic). Now, they show a more human-readable format like “Mar 31, 2025,” marking the start of the week.
- New relative date filters: You can now filter by “this year,” “this month,” and “this week” for those quick, intuitive time frames.
- Enhanced pie chart tooltips: Hovering over a pie chart now reveals the slice’s percentage.