Create Visualizations

Learn how to present your data using visualizations.

This article describes how to visualize your data by creating visualizations in Analytical Designer.

Create a Visualization

Follow these steps to create a new visualization.

Steps:

  1. Open your workspace.

  2. Click the Analyze tab.

    Analytical Designer opens.

  3. Drag a metric or an attribute from Data Catalog onto any drop zone to visualize it.

    sesarch filter

    By default, the visualization is displayed as a table.

  4. To change the visualization type, click the appropriate icon at the top.

    sesarch filter

    You can display the visualization as a table or different types of charts.

  5. Select options in the Metrics settings.

    custom metric
  6. To add granularity to the displayed data, drag an attribute to the View by/Trend by section.

    view by

    If you do not see the View by/Trend by section, try to change the type of the visualization.

  7. To display also attribute values without any data, select the show missing values option.

    The visualization then displays all attribute values, even if the metric values are missing.

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  8. If you add Attributes, you can select which attribute label should be used to display the attribute values (the Display as option).

    select a label
  9. To split the display into a stacked chart, drag an attribute to the Stack by/Segment by section.

    stack by

    If you do not see the Stack by/Segment by section, try to change the type of the visualization.

  10. Add filters to the visualization.

    You can drag and drop attributes to the top bar to filter the whole visualization.

    filter table
  11. Add filters to individual metrics.

    You can filter each metric by up to 20 attributes. All filters are applied at the same time (the AND operator).

    search filter
  12. Add a descriptive tootip to your visualization to provide context for other users - click the question mark icon next to the visualization name and write the text.

    add tooltip

  13. Save the visualization.

    When you have finalized your visualization:

    final visualization

    Use the Save button to save it.

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    Use the Undo and Redo buttons in the top bar to browse through your edits.

    undo redo

Recommendations

As you create visualizations, Analytical Designer offers you Recommended next steps.

The recommendations that appear when you add metrics and attributes are based on actions that GoodData users typically perform in similar analytical scenarios:

recommendations

Edit a Visualization

Follow these steps to edit an existing visualization.

Steps:

  1. Click Open in the top bar.

  2. Select the visualization to edit.

    The visualization opens for editing.

  3. Update the visualization and Save.

    The visualization is updated and saved.

Delete a Visualization

Follow these steps to delete a visualization.

Steps:

  1. Click Open in the top bar.

  2. Hover over the visualization that you want to delete.

  3. Click the cross icon next to the visualization name.

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  1. Confirm the deletion.

    The visualization is deleted.