Ability to add a subtitle or description to any data visualization

Benjamin Arnulf-Oracle

As of Sep 2025, users can only put a title to a data visualization. This is ok but not best in class. Most of top data visualizations, like the ones from New York Times are having a subtitle or description to their data visualization (see figure 2.)

We can achieve something similar by adding 2 text data visualization type per viz but it's multiplying the number of viz by 3 in a dashboard so it's not practical.

My proposal is to allow users to add a subtitle or description inside the visualization. (see figure 1.). It has been done in Auto Insights and it's looking perfect. We need it in DV.

Figure 1.

Figure 2.

philipgodfrey

Great suggestion @Benjamin Arnulf-Oracle - this is often helpful to add further context for the end-user to aid understanding. The only similar workaround is adding a "note", but this is usually associated to a given data point, rather than as a chart explanation.