About visualizations

A visualization is a visual representation of the data in a Visual Insight analysis, such as a grid or graph. You can add visualizations to an analysis, to provide multiple ways for a user to display and interact with the data from the analysis's dataset. Each visualization is displayed on a separate tab in the analysis. You can click the tab of a visualization to display it. Steps are below to add, duplicate, or delete a visualization, or to change the type of visualization that is used to display data.

You can add the following visualizations to an analysis:

Grid visualization: You can display data in an interactive grid, allowing users to pivot, sort, move, drill, filter, and perform additional manipulations on data displayed in the grid.
Graph visualization: You can display the data in a graphical format and choose between a variety of different graphs, such as an area graph, line graph, or pie chart.
Graph Matrix visualization: You can display the data in a chart containing one graph for every combination of the data you specify, allowing users to examine the data for each combination individually.
Heat Map visualization: You can display the data as a combination of colored rectangles. Each rectangle represents an attribute element, and is colored and sized according to the value of metrics in the visualization, allowing users to quickly grasp the state and impact of a large number of variables at one time.
Google Map visualization: You can display the data as geographical locations on a map, then change the color, size, and display of markers based on the value of a metric, to allow users to quickly grasp relationships between different locations.

To add a new visualization to an analysis

Prerequisites

This procedure assumes that you have already created the analysis that you want modify.
You must have the Web Visual Insight and Execute Analysis or Document privileges.

Click the name of the analysis to run it.
You can create a visualization using a specific group of report objects. Select the report objects you want to use in the Dataset Objects panel. To select multiple report objects, press SHIFT and click each report object you want to select.

Note: If the Dataset Objects panel is not displayed, click the Dataset Objects icon in the analysis toolbar.
Click the Add Visualization icon . The Select a Visualization dialog box opens, with an icon displayed next to the visualization Web recommends based on the data in your analysis. The icons of visualizations that cannot be created using the report objects in the analysis's dataset (or using the report objects you selected, if you are creating a visualization using a specific group of report objects) are displayed in grey. You can hover the cursor over a visualization's icon to view information about the visualization's dataset requirements.
Click the icon of the visualization you want to use to display your data. The visualization is automatically created and added using the report objects in your analysis. Some visualizations can be displayed using different subtypes. For example, if you want to represent your data as a bar graph, you can choose to display it as a vertical bar graph or a horizontal bar graph. Click the icon of the visualization you want to create, then click the icon for the subtype you want to use to display your data. For a list of the subtypes for each of the visualizations available, see the table below.
To add data to the visualization, from the Dataset Objects panel, click and drag them to the Drop Zones panel, as follows:

Note: The following areas in the Drop Zones panel are displayed when adding report objects to a Grid visualization; however, different areas may be displayed depending on the type of visualization you are adding to the analysis. For steps to add attributes and metrics to a specific type of visualization, see the appropriate topic for the type of visualization you want to add.

To add an attribute to the rows, drag the attribute to the Rows area.

To add an attribute to the columns, drag the attribute to the Columns area.

To add a metric to the analysis, drag the metric to the Metric area.

Visualization subtypes

The table below contains a list of the subtypes for each of the visualizations available, as well as a link to a help topic with example images and detailed steps to create the visualization.

Visualization Types	Visualization Subtypes	Steps to Create Visualization
Grid	N/A	Creating a Grid visualization
Heat Map	N/A	Creating a Heat Map visualization
Google Map	N/A	Creating a Google Map visualization
Pie	Pie Ring Pie	Creating a Graph visualization
Matrix of bar graphs	Vertical Bar - Standard Vertical Bar - Stacked Vertical Bar - Clustered Horizontal Bar - Standard Horizontal Bar - Stacked Horizontal Bar - Clustered	Creating a Graph Matrix visualization
Matrix of line graphs	Vertical Line - Standard Vertical Line - Stacked Vertical Line - Absolute Horizontal Line - Standard Horizontal Line - Stacked Horizontal Line - Absolute	Creating a Graph Matrix visualization
Matrix of scatter and bubble graphs with circle markers	Scatter Scatter (Metrics on X-Y axis) Scatter Grid	Creating a Graph Matrix visualization
Matrix of scatter and bubble graphs with square markers	Bubble Bubble (Metrics on X-Y axis) Bubble Grid	Creating a Graph Matrix visualization
Vertical and horizontal bar graphs	Vertical Bar Vertical Bar - Dual Axis Horizontal Bar Horizontal Bar - Dual Axis	Creating a Graph visualization
Vertical and horizontal line graphs	Vertical Line Vertical Line - Dual Axis Horizontal Line Horizontal Line - Dual Axis	Creating a Graph visualization
Vertical and horizontal area graphs	Vertical Area Vertical Area - Dual Axis Horizontal Area Horizontal Area - Dual Axis	Creating a Graph visualization
Combination of different graphs	Bar and Area Bar and Area - Dual Axis	Creating a Graph visualization