Data visualization components provide more detailed or alternate
views of the data.
Chart
Displays data using standard chart formats, including:
- Bar charts
- Line charts
- Area charts
- Pie charts
- Scatter charts
- Bubble charts
Users may be able to select different metric or dimensions in order to
change the chart display. They can also save the currently displayed chart as
an image.
The
Chart component configuration includes:
- The chart type
- The dimensions and metrics
to display on the chart
- The chart style, including
options for displaying the chart legend and axes
- Whether end users can
change the chart metrics and dimensions
Map
Displays one or more map layers. Each layer represents a set of
geographic locations.
Users can search for locations, and display details for a specific
location.
The
Map component configuration includes:
- The lists of locations,
including:
- The geocode attribute
representing the location
- Display options for
the map layer points
- Sorting and
pagination options
- The attributes to
include in the location details
- The available search
options
Pivot Table
Generates a table that allows users to perform comparisons and
identify trends across several cross sections of data.
Users can export the data to a spreadsheet, and may be permitted to
change the table layout.
The
Pivot Table component configuration includes:
- The metrics and dimensions
to display
- Highlighting for specific
metric values
- Available actions
- Other display options such
as the table height and the column width
Summarization Bar
Display a set of summary items that contain summary values from the
data. A summary value can be a metric (such as average sales), a dimension
value associated with the lowest or highest value of a metric (such as the
region with the highest sales), or a number of flags. Flags indicate dimension
values for which associated metric values have passed a specified threshold.
The
Summarization Bar configuration includes:
- The metric and dimension
values to display
- Conditional formatting to
highlight the summary item for specific ranges of metric values
- The text size for the
summary item title and value
Tag Cloud
Displays a distribution of terms based on the value of an associated
metric. The font size reflects the metric value. The higher the metric value,
the larger the font.
The component can display in cloud view, with the terms in
alphabetical order, or in list view, with the terms ordered by the metric
value.
For both formats, the
Tag Cloud can display the associated metric
value:
Users can refine by the displayed terms.
The
Tag Cloud component configuration includes:
- The available dimensions
(Tag Cloud terms) and metrics (values used to organize
the terms)
- Whether to display the
metric value next to each
Tag Cloud term
- The number of terms to
display
- The default display format
(cloud of list)
- The range of text sizes
for the displayed terms