Select Variables
Variables are the columns of data used by visualizations. For example, if you have a database of sales information broken down by product, you might associate the total amount of sales for a given with the Size variable in a Treemap. You could also associate the difference between this year’s sales and last year’s sales to the Color variable for the same Treemap. This simple configuration will let you see immediately which products are bringing in the most revenue and which products are increasing and decreasing in sales.
Each visualization uses a different set of variables, depending on the capabilities of the visualization:
Snapshot Visualizations
Visualization | Variables |
Bar Graph – Vertical |
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Bar Graph - Horizontal |
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Box Plot |
Y (BoxPlot), Color, Details, Style |
Bullet Graph - Vertical |
Y, Reference Y, X, Color, Details, Style |
Bullet Graph - Horizontal |
X, Reference X, Y, Color, Details, Style |
Categorical Line Graph |
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Circle Pack |
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Donut Chart |
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Donut Gauge |
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Dot Plot – Vertical |
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Dot Plot – Horizontal |
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Funnel Chart |
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Heat Matrix |
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Map Plot |
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Network Graph |
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Numeric Line Graph |
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Numeric Line Graph – Vertical |
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Numeric Needle Graph |
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Numeric Needle Graph – Horizontal |
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Numeric Stacked Needles |
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Numeric Stacked Needles – Horizontal |
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Pareto Chart |
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Pie Chart |
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Radar |
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Record |
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Scatter Plot |
X, Y, Size, Color, Opacity, Shape, Ref Lines, Details, Style |
Scatter Plot 3D |
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Shapes |
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Surface Plot |
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Surface Plot 3D |
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Table |
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Ticker Tile |
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Treemap |
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Waterfall Chart |
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