Creating Widgets

In this section:

1. Creating an Area Chart Widget
   Area charts are recommended for displaying absolute or relative values over a time period. An area chart is similar to a line chart except that the areas under each line are filled in and can be stacked.
2. Creating an Area Map Widget
   Area map widgets let you compare values and display categories across geographical regions. You can use area maps when you have geographical regions in your data, such as countries, states, counties, or postal codes.
3. Creating a Bar Chart Widget
   The bar chart is commonly used to compare multiple items. Bar charts display categories or items (descriptive data) along the y-axis and their values on the x-axis. You can also group the values by another category.
4. Creating a Box and Whisker Plot Widget
   The box and whisker plot, or box plot, is useful for representing the distribution, variability, and center of a data set along an axis.
5. Creating a Calendar Heatmap Widget
   The calendar heatmap widget visualizes values over days in a calendar-style view, making it easy to identify daily patterns or anomalies.
6. Creating a Column Chart Widget
   Column charts are useful for comparing multiple items and for comparing data over time. The column chart can include multiple values on both the x-axis and y-axis. It can also include a breakdown by categories.
7. Creating a Funnel Chart Widget
   The funnel chart is especially useful for showing stages in a process that are sequentially dependent.
8. Creating an Indicator Widget
   The indicator widget provides various options for displaying one or two numeric values as a number, gauge, or ticker. You can also add a color-coded indicator icon that represents the value in the widget. For example, you can add a green up arrow or a red down arrow.
9. Creating a Line Chart Widget
   Line charts can be used for comparing data over time or for comparing changes over the same time period for more than one group or category.
10. Creating a Liquid Fill Gauge Widget
    The liquid fill gauge widget is useful when you want to visualize data that represents liquid levels, such as ink usage. The liquid level rises in the gauge based on the percentage of the current value from the maximum value set for the widget.
11. Creating a Pie Chart Widget
    Pie charts are used to display proportional data and percentages.
12. Creating a Pivot Table Widget
    Pivot tables are useful for summarizing and analyzing large amounts of data.
13. Creating a Polar Chart Widget
    You can use the polar chart, or radar chart, to compare multiple categories or variables with a spatial perspective in a radial chart.
14. Creating a Scatter Chart Widget
    The scatter chart displays the distribution of two variables along the x-axis and y-axis.
15. Creating a Scatter Map Widget
    Scatter maps let you visualize geographical data as points scattered on a map. The map distinguishes data using different colors and sizes for the data points.
16. Creating a Sunburst Widget
    The sunburst widget is similar to a pie chart but it is multi-dimensional. While a pie chart combines one descriptive field and one numeric value, the sunburst widget can display multiple rings, one for each field. Each ring in the sunburst chart shows a breakdown of its parent ring slice.
17. Creating a Table Widget
    The table widget displays raw and non-aggregated data in columns, with as many fields and metrics as needed.
18. Creating a Treemap Widget
    The treemap widget is a multi-dimensional widget that displays hierarchical data in the form of nested rectangles. For example, you can use a treemap instead of a column chart to compare a large number of categories and subcategories.