Visualization types and overview visualization-types-in-analysis-workspace

Learn about the different kinds, or types, of visualizations that you can put into your Analysis Workspace projects, to help you tell your data stories.

As a recap of the video, here are some categories of visualizations and suggested visualizations to add to your project, based on what kind of analysis you want to do on your data. As stated in the video, none of this is a hard & fast rule, but rather just some suggestions for you as you get used to the different visualizations:

Visualization category
Suggested visualizations
Basic Data/info
  • Freeform table

  • Text

Overview
  • Freeform table
  • Key metric summary
  • Summary number
  • Summary change
Comparisons
  • Bar

  • Horizontal bar

  • Bar stacked

  • Horizontal bar stacked

  • Freeform table

  • Freeform table with conditional formatting

  • Combo chart

  • Bullet (compare actual numbers with goals)

  • Tree map (multi-dimensional)

Trends
  • Line

  • Area

  • Area stacked

  • Vertical bar

Parts-to-whole
  • Donut

  • Area stacked

  • Treemap

Relationships
  • Scatterplot

  • Venn

Distributions
  • Histogram
Cohort analysis
  • Cohort tables (retention/churn)

  • Freeform tables with segments applied

Analyzing customer journeys
  • Fallout

  • Flow

  • Cohort

Geo
  • Map

For more information, visit the documentation.

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