About Range Charts

In Oracle Analytics, you can use range chart visualizations to show a span of values between a start value and an end value for a category or along a continuous axis.

Range charts are useful when you want to visualize variability or acceptable bounds rather than a single value. For example, you might use a range chart to display minimum and maximum values for product categories, confidence intervals over time, forecast ranges, or upper and lower tolerance limits for a process.

There are three range chart visualization types available:

• Range Bar: Displays vertical bars that extend from a start value to an end value for each category.
• Horizontal Range: Displays horizontal bars that extend from a start value to an end value for each category.
• Range Area: Displays a filled band between a start value and an end value across an ordered or continuous axis.

Range Bar and Horizontal Range visualizations are useful for comparing ranges across discrete categories, such as departments, products, or regions. Range Area visualizations are useful for showing how a range changes over time or across another ordered dimension.

You can display multiple ranges in a range chart. For example, you might compare an actual range with a target range, or compare two scenarios such as current versus forecast values.

You can also configure the data labels for range charts so consumers can more easily understand what each range represents.