Visualizations

The Visualization panel of a question — or of a dashboard card — chooses the shape of the result and configures it. The formats and value appearance defined in Structure apply automatically.

Chart types

The picker organizes chart types by purpose. A sparkle marks the recommended type for the result; a type that doesn’t suit it is dimmed, and its tooltip explains why.

Family	Types	For
Key figures	Number, Trend, Progress, Gauge	a figure, its change, its share of a goal
Compare	Bar, Row, Radar, Polar bar	categories against each other; the radar compares profiles across 3 to 30 criteria, on a common scale
Trend	Line, Area, Combo, Bar race, Line race, Calendar	tracking over time — and forecasting; races replay history period by period
Distribution	Pie (on several rings), Treemap, Funnel	shares, shares of shares, stages
Relationship	Scatter, Bubble	two measures against each other
Detail	Table, Pivot table, Map	rows, a cross-tabulated measure, values by region

Shares on several levels

A pie with several dimensions — say type, reason, sub-reason — becomes rings: the first level in the center, each next level around it, in shades of its parent slice. Click a slice to zoom into it; click the center to go back. The treemap lays out the same levels as nested rectangles, each as large as its value, with each group’s name in its header; click to zoom, and the breadcrumb at the top takes you back. Three levels at most.

Calendar

One value per day, laid out on the calendar of the three most recent years: Points, a dot that grows with the value, or colored squares with their legend. Weekdays, seasons and gaps show at a glance. Clicking a day filters the dashboard.

Time and periods

On a dated line or area, Continuous time axis spaces dates by the real time between them: a missing month leaves a gap instead of being skipped. Highlighted periods marks one or more periods — a promotion, a sale, a strike — with a named band, and on a single line the line itself takes the period’s color.

Races

A bar race plays the periods one after another: at each date the bars take their value and overtake each other, the period is written large in the corner, and a timeline at the bottom lets you play, pause or jump to a date. A line race draws the lines over time, each named at its tip with its value; Replay starts it again.

They need a date (the race moves forward with it), a measure, and competitors: the values of a second dimension (countries, products) or several measures. Settings: the Speed (slow, normal, fast), how many Bars shown (5 to 20), Accumulate periods for a race on the running total rather than each month’s value, and Start the race on open.

Bubbles, trends, funnel as columns

• Bubble: on two axes — x and y two measures, the size a third, one color per category — or packed: one bubble per category, as large as its value, showing its share, value or name.
• Trend: the figure, its sparkline (area, line or bars, green when it goes the right way, red otherwise) and its change from the previous period.
• Funnel as columns: columns joined by bands showing each step’s conversion.
• Bar fill: solid, hatched or gradient — for one chart, or for all of them through the theme, along with the bar radius.

Colors

Six palettes, each an ordering of hues: eodia (default), Vivid, Ocean, Earth, Soft and Gradient (from light to dark, for ordered categories — 5 at most). All are validated in light and dark mode: two neighboring colors can be told apart, including by a color-blind person (protanopia, deuteranopia), and each one stays legible on the background.

Custom builds your own palette, up to 8 colors in order. It is checked while you build it, against the same thresholds: neighboring colors confused by a color-blind person, too close, too pale or too gray. In dark theme, each color is adjusted to stay legible.

Color of each item: each series, slice or bar can take its own color — from the palette, from the application or any color at all —, and go back to the palette.

The order of priority: the color chosen for the element, then the value’s color in Structure (“delivered” in green, “cancelled” in red, in every chart), then the palette. “Other” stays gray.

Making a chart speak

Setting	Effect
Highlight	the highest, the lowest or the latest value stands out; the others fade
Average line, median line	a reference line, with its value
Goal	a line at the target value, with its label
Category order	that of the result, descending or ascending
Only the top ones	the N largest categories; the rest in “Other” (which counts neither in the average nor in the highlight)
Extend the trend by	see Forecasts

Shape and labels

• Stacking: side by side, stacked or 100%; segments in a stack are separated by a thin line, and only the end of the stack is rounded. Total above stacks.
• Line style: straight, smooth or stepped; points depending on their number, always or never; gradient area.
• Values on marks: all of them when there are few, otherwise only the extremes and the latest.
• Two to four lines are labeled at the end of their path.
• Axes: linear or logarithmic scale, minimum and maximum, labels horizontal, slanted or vertical, axes and grid shown or not.
• Pie: donut and its thickness, total in the center, half circle, rose, what each slice displays (percentage, value, name…), inside or outside, number of slices before “Other”.

Choices among four options or fewer are made with one click, on illustrated buttons.

Clicking a chart

In a dashboard, clicking a bar or a slice filters the dashboard, and Shift + click adds more categories: see Dashboards. In the editor, it offers to filter the question on the value, or to exclude it.