Radar Graph Settings

The Radar Graph was introduced with release 2025.0. It is used for creating radar graphs or parallel coordinates graphs, which can be oriented horizontally or vertically.

In Panopticon, a Radar Graph is characterized by the following:

Several numeric variables are visualized with a line drawn between axes where each axis represents one numeric variable.
The axes can have the same value span, or individual value spans.
The axes can optionally have variable title labels and/or value tick mark labels.

The purpose of both the Radar Graph and the Parallel Coordinates Graph is to determine how different items compare to each other across multiple numeric variables. Correlations and clustering tendencies can be visually detected.

Ready-made Radar Graph and Parallel Coordinates Graph are available in the Examples bundle. Here are some examples:

Radar Graph

Parallel Coordinates Graph

Settings Pill	Description
Columns	Cross tabbing a radar into multiple copies in columns based on one or several text dimensions (data columns of type text).
Rows	Cross tabbing a radar into multiple copies in rows based on one or several text dimensions (data columns of type text).
Axes	The main setting, where one or several numeric columns are added for a graph to be displayed.
Line	For controlling the subset of line member settings in the X-axis graph.
Color	For controlling the color settings of the associated numeric or text columns.
Opacity	For controlling constant opacity and the associated numeric columns.
Tooltip	For controlling the content of the tooltip popup that displays corresponding to the axes, color, and opacity.
Style	Style settings for the visualization part, including for example, the title rows.
Filters	For controlling the display of Rank Filters, and application of any other static filter on the visualization.
Options	Entry of visualization Title text rows and various other settings.

Detailed settings under the Axes pill.

Pill Settings	Description
Axis Type	Radial, Horizontal, or Vertical.
Show Titles	Determines whether the titles will display for the axis or axes.
Shared Axis Settings	Determines whether most of the axis settings should be per axis or shared among all axes. Shared axis settings are the most common for radar graphs while individual axis settings are the most common for parallel coordinate plots.
Range Min and Range Max	The range of the radar axis. Automatically set values are shown in gray font, while explicitly set values are shown in black font.
Inverted	Makes the radar go from right-to-left instead of from left-to-right, or from top-to-bottom instead of bottom-to-top in the case of Vertical axis type.
Scale	Sets the type of scale to use on the radar axis. Can be Linear, Power, or Log. Default is Linear.
Tick Marks	Controls the number of tick marks to show along the radar axis. Options are Automatic, Custom, or None. Default is Automatic.
Tick Format	Controls the formatting of the tick mark labels. Options are Metric Prefix or Custom. Default is Metric Prefix.
Preferred Tick Space	The preferred space in pixels between the minor grid lines across the axis. Default is 100.
Grid Lines	Determines how grid lines are drawn across the axis. Allowed values include None, Dotted, Dashed, or Solid.

By drag-dropping a numeric or text column on the Axes pill or on the Axes stack, a radar visualization will immediately appear, and the automatic values will be set for the Range Min and Range Max fields.

Columns that are added, or a stack of reorderable independent axis setting, represent the data dimensions. These columns can be renamed or deleted, and the aggregate can be modified.

Detailed settings under the Line pill.

Pill Settings	Description
Group By	Text columns that will be used to group the line members in the X-axis graph.
Line Width	Specifies the width in pixels of the lines.
Shade Area Below Line	Defines that opacity shades are applied between the lines and the zero Y grid line.

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