Add bar visualizations to Analysis Workspace projects in Customer Journey Analytics

Transcript

Hey everybody, it’s Doug. In this video I’m going to show you how to add bar visualizations, bar stacked, also down here horizontal bar and horizontal bar stacked visualizations. So no rocket surgery for you today. So we’ll just run through these pretty quick and just kind of give you an idea of a couple of the options as well. So like all the visualizations here, or at least most of them, most of the visualizations, including the bar charts, are based on data that you have in a table. So we’re going to drag a bar visualization, right, click on visualizations, drag bar over here, and just pop it in right there. It comes up right above this and you can see which table it is assigned to. So that’s good. If it’s not assigned to the right one, if it’s not pulling data from the right one, then you can just check it here and choose the one you want it to pull data from. But that’s the right one, so I’m going to leave that. You can also remove the data source if you don’t want to see the table anymore, then only show the visualization, but I do. So this is good when you have maybe two or three metrics and you’ve got a handful of things to show here. So you can see, you know, the bars and you can see how they compare, not only between the different metrics for one item, but also between different items for the same metric, right? So the page you use for Sunday and Monday and Tuesday and all that. So just a really good basic graph for you there. Perfect. Now this one would also be fine really for our horizontal bar. So instead of having to go back over here on the left, we can just go up to the settings here and click that. Be nice. Okay, there we go. And say horizontal bar and that’ll give me the horizontal bar graph as well. And so you can decide which look you like better. This one does lend itself well if you’ve got a number of things. In this case, you know, obviously seven. But if I had, you know, 27 items, then it’ll be much better to view something like this in a horizontal bar where you’ve got some room to scroll down as opposed to trying to smash it in on the regular bar chart. But on this one, we’ll go back to bar chart and this looks really good for this kind of data. If you want to only look at one of the metrics, you can click the other one. If I click on sessions, it’ll go away. Now I’m just going to talk about the other visualization type that I mentioned, you know, was stacked. So what if I go in and choose bar stacked? Now it’ll do it for you, but here’s your quiz. Why shouldn’t I do that? Well, I’ll tell you the answer. I’m not going to wait for you to answer because it doesn’t make any sense to stack page views and sessions. If you’re going to use stacked graphs, then of course to make sense to stack. And they are of course both traffic type variables, the number of page views, number of sessions. So if that makes sense to you, then great. But normally that is not something that we would view in a stacked sense like that. So in fact, I’ll just hit command Z. We’ll go back to the other one. Now, if I really just wanted some of these days, I can also just grab some of this and just maybe grab, let me just scroll to get like two days. There we go. And it’ll change that automatically unless I lock it, you know, up here and lock the selection. But again, I don’t want that. So I can hit command Z and go back and view the whole thing. Okay, let me go ahead and scroll down. And here is another one that I did. And this one makes a little bit more sense to use for stacked because I’ve got this one with the different products here. And I’ve got online orders and in-store orders. And then I’ve got total orders over here. So it probably wouldn’t make sense for me to grab all three metrics and stack them because online orders and in-store orders are, you know, part of total orders. There’s actually a few other kinds as well. But these are, you know, added up to become some of my total orders. And that’s why just five of them selected because they have a lot of products here. And if I do go down, let me do this just for fun, then I’m going to grab a bunch of them. And what happens if, you know, I do, let’s say 20 of them right there. You come up here and now you can see that it gets a little bit goofy with that regular vertical bar stacked because now it’s having to, you know, it’s doing a pretty good job here. But that was one that might be better with that many items selected if you do horizontal bar or in this case horizontal bar stacked. And now, you know, now we can see the totals by just looking at the right side there. And we can see each one as well. So, you know, this is just a really great way for you to see how to compare different items and different metrics associated with those items, whether it’s one at a time or in this case stacked. Hope that was helpful. Have a great day.