Visualizations overview

Workspace offers a number of visualizations that let you generate visual representations of your data. Such as bar charts, donut charts, histograms, line charts, maps, scatterplots, and others.

Types

The following visualization types are available in Analysis Workspace:

Icon	Name	Description
	Area	An area graph visualization. Like a line graph, but with a colored area below the line. Use an area graph when you have multiple metrics and want to visualize the area expressed by the intersection of two or more metrics.
	Bar	A bar graph visualization with vertical bars representing various values across one or more metrics.
	Bar stacked	A stacked bar graph visualization with vertical bars representing various values across one or more metrics.
	Bullet	A bullet graph visualization, which shows how a value you are interested in compares to or measures against other performance ranges (goals).
	Cohort table	A cohort visualization is a group of people sharing common characteristics over a specified period. A cohort table is useful for retention, churn or latency analysis.
	Combo	A combo chart enables you to build quickly a comparison visualization without having to build a table first.
	Donut	Similar to a pie chart, a donut visualization shows data as parts or filters of a whole.
	Fallout	A fallout visualization shows where persons left (fell out) and continued through (fell through) a predefined sequence of pages.
	Flow	A flow visualization shows exact customer paths through your websites and apps.
	Freeform table	A freeform table visualization is an interactive visualization. The freeform table visualization is the foundation for data analysis in Workspace.
	Histogram	A histogram visualization buckets persons, visits or events into buckets based on a metric volume.
	Horizontal bar	A horizontal bar visualization shows horizontal bars representing various values across one or more metrics.
	Horizontal bar stacked	A stacked horizontal bar visualization shows horizontal bars representing various values across one or more metrics.
	Journey canvas	A journey canvas visualization helps you to analyze and gain insights on the journeys that you provide to your users and customers.
	Key metric summary	A Key metrics summary visualization combines the line, summary change, and summary number visualizations.
	Line	A line visualization represents metrics using a line to show how values change over a period of time. A line chart uses time along the x-axis.
	Scatter	A scatterplot visualization shows the relationship between dimension items and up to three metrics.
	Section header	To identify and articulate sections within a panel.
	Summary change	A summary change visualization shows the change between the selected cells as one large number or percentage.
	Summary number	A summary number visualization shows the selected cell as one large number.
	Text	A text visualization lets you add user-defined text to your Workspace. Helpful for adding additional context to your analysis and insights, in addition to leveraging panel/visualization descriptions
	Treemap	A treemap visualization displays hierarchical (tree-structured) data as a set of nested rectangles.
	Venn	A venn visualization uses circles to depict the metric overlap of up to 3 filters.

Add visualizations to a panel

1. Open the Workspace project where you want to add a visualization.

2. Use any of the following methods to add the visualization:

   

   • In the left panel, select Visualizations, then drag a visualization to the panel where you want to add the visualization to.

   • On the panel where you want to add the visualization, select , then choose the icon that represents the visualization that you want to add. Hover over the icon for each visualization to see the name.

   • Add a blank panel, then select the visualization that you want to add.

   • From the context menu of an existing visualization in your Analysis Workspace project, select Duplicate visualization or Copy visualization.

   • Use the Workspace Insert menu to insert a visualization.

   • From the context menu in a Freeform table, select Visualize. Then select the visualization from the submenu. Based on the current selection in the table, Workspace determines which visualization to offer and interprets the data to build the requested visualization.

Legend

A visualization legend helps you to relate date in a source table to plotted series in the visualization. The legend is interactive - you can select a legend item to show/hide a series in the visualization, which is helpful if you want to simplify the data being visualized.

Additionally, you can rename legend labels to help you make visuals more consumable. Note: legend editing does not apply to: Treemap, Bullet, Summary Change/Number, Text, Freeform, Histogram, Cohort or Flow visualizations.

To edit a legend label:

1. Right-click one of the legend labels.

2. Click Edit Label.

   

3. Enter the new label text.

4. Press Enter to save.

Settings

Each visualization has its own settings. To access visualization settings, select Settings in the visualization header to show a popup.

Depending on the visualization, you can configure

• details for the source of data of the visualization through the Data source tab, and
• settings for the visualization through the Settings tab.

Data source

You can control which data source and items or positions within that data source correspond to a visualization. See Manage data sources for more information.

Settings

Which visualization settings are available depends on the visualization. The table below summarizes the most common settings. Some visualizations do have specific settings. See the individual visualization documentation for more details.

You can customize the settings for all visualizations that you create. For more information, see User preferences.

Context menu

Use the context menu (available through alternate select, for example, right-click when using a mouse) on a visualization header to access additional functionality for a visualization. Not all options are available for all visualizations.

Configuration

Some visualizations (like Cohort table, Fallout, Flow, and others) have a configuration dialog to assist you in building the visualization. Use at the top of the visualization to access and change the configuration.

Visualize

If you are not sure which visualization to pick, select Visualize in any freeform table row (available on hover). This selection is the fastest way to add a visualization. Analysis Workspace takes an educated guess at which visualization would best fit your data. For example, if you have one row selected, it creates a trended line graph. If you have three filter rows selected, it creates a venn diagram.