You create visualizations from predefined charts, fields, or custom objects. Once added to your sheet, you can edit and refine your visualizations.
Your visualization design is guided by the data in your fields and the unlimited potential for exploring associations and correlations through measures and dimensions.
Get started here: Creating visualizations.
Insight Advisor offers assisted visualization creation. With Insight Advisor, you can
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Select types of analysis you want to see and generate visualizations of that type.
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Ask Insight Advisor what you want to see and let it generate visualizations.
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Select fields and master items and let Insight Advisor generate visualizations.
For more information about creating visualizations with Insight Advisor, see Creating visualizations with Insight Advisor.
Insight Advisor also can offer suggestions based on fields of interest when you make your own visualizations. For more information, see Creating visualizations using Insight Advisor chart suggestions.
After creating a visualization, you may want to make adjustments to improve how it conveys information to users. For example, you can change the data used, or adjust the appearance of the visualization. You can add more dimensions or measures for further depth of information or remove some to improve clarity. Learn more about editing your visualizations here: Editing visualizations.
Adherence to design principals and clear communication of information is key to creation of apps that engage and invite data discovery. All skill levels will benefit from reviewing best practices for designing visualizations. See Best practices for designing visualizations.
Learn more
- Visualizations
- Dimensions
- Measures
- Best practices for choosing visualization types
- Foundations of Building Visualizations