Summary: Select the data you want to include, select a compatible widget, and configure it.
To create a widget, click Select Data.
Here you'll see a list of the available table names. Select which data you want to include in your widget. As you select more data, the compatible types of widget will become available/unavailable in the left side bar.
Select a widget to start configuring it.
Here's an overview of each widget, click on the name to read a full guide to configuring it.
- Indicator - The indicator widget displays one or two numeric values as a number, gauge or ticker. You can add additional titles and a color-coded indicator icon representing the value, such as a green up arrow or a red down arrow.
- Column Chart - The column chart is useful for comparing items and comparing data over time. The chart can include multiple values on both the X and Y-axis, as well as a breakdown by categories displayed on the Y-axis.
- Bar Chart - The bar chart is commonly used to compare many items. It typically presents categories or items (descriptive data) along the Y-Axis, with their values displayed on the X-Axis.
- Funnel Chart - The funnel chart shows stages in a process that are sequentially dependent. The funnel shape helps you track the health or validity of a process.
- Pie Chart - The pie chart is used to display proportional data, and/or percentages.
- Line Chart - The line chart can compare data over time, for example: to analyse sales revenue for the past year. It can also compare changes over the same period of time for more than one group or category. E.g: Analyse expenditures of different business units for the past year.
- Area Chart - An area chart is very similar to a line chart except that the areas under each line are filled in (coloured), and can be stacked. The chart is recommended for displaying absolute or relative (stacked) values over a time period.
- Pivot - Pivot tables are one of the most useful widgets for visualizing data. They enable you to quickly summarize and analyse large amounts of data.
- Table - The table widget displays a broader view of your data, presenting raw and non-aggregated data in columns, with as many fields and metrics as needed.
- Scatter Chart - The scatter chart displays the distribution of two variables on an X-Axis, Y-Axis, and two additional dimensions of data that are shown as coloured circles scattered across the chart:
- Treemap - The treemap is a multi-dimensional widget that displays hierarchical data in the form of nested rectangles. This could be a useful replacement for a column chart if you have too many categories and sub-categories to compare.
- Calendar Heatmap - The calendar heatmap widget visualises values over days in a calendar-like view, making it easy to identify daily patterns or anomalies.
- Scatter Map - Scatter maps visualise geographical data as data points on a map. Sisense uses a cloud service to load the background tiles of the map and position data points on the map using a geocoding service. The map distinguishes data using different colours and sizes for the data points on the map.
- Area Map - Area maps show geographical data as polygons on a map.
- Sunburst - The sunburst widget is similar to a pie chart but is multi-dimensional. Whereas a pie chart combines one field and one numeric value, the Sunburst widget can display multiple rings, one for each field. Each ring in the sunburst shows a breakdown of its parent ring slice.
- Box & Whisker Plot - The box & whisker plot, or box plot, widget is a convenient way of visually describing the distribution, variability, and centre of a data set along an axis.
- Polar Chart - Use the polar (radar) chart to compare multiple categories/variables with a spatial perspective in a radial chart.