An Overview of Display Types

Learn how to toggle the data visualization in your analysis.

This article describes the various options that the Tulip Analytics Editor provides to customize the display options used for an analysis.

You may also wish to change the structure of the analysis, or change the data being displayed using the left-hand Context Pane.

How To Use the "Display" Dropdown in the Analytics Editor

In general, you can open the Display dropdown from the Toolbar:

Not all display options will be available for every configuration of templates and data. The Analytics Editor will automatically display only the display options appropriate for the current analysis.

View Types

Analytics provide many different chart types, such as bar charts or line types.  Each template has a different set of possible chart types associated with it.

The display options dropdown will show you the chart types available for the analysis you have built.  Below is a summary of the different chart types, and when they will be available.  You can find more information about the different templates available here.

Bar Chart

Templates available for: One Operation (no comparison), Multiple Axes (one comparison)

Grouped Bar Chart

Templates available for: One Operation (one comparison), Compare Variables, Multiple Axes (two comparisons)

Stacked Bar Chart

Templates available for: One Operation (one comparison), Compare Variables, Multiple Axes (two comparisons)

Line Chart

Templates available for: One Operation (no comparison), Multiple Axes (one comparison)

Multiseries Line Chart

Templates available for: One Operation (one comparison), Compare Variables, Multiple Axes (two comparisons)

Dot Plot

Templates available for: One Operation (no comparison), Multiple Axes (one comparison)

Grouped Dot Plot

Templates available for: One Operation (one comparison), Compare Variables, Multiple Axes (two comparisons)

Pareto Chart

Templates available for: One Operation (no comparison), Multiple Axes (one comparison)

Donut Chart

Templates available for: One Operation (no comparison), Multiple Axes (one comparison)

Scatter Plot

Formatting Charts

There are several options for formatting your charts. You can access these options by clicking the paintroller icon in the top right corner of the dashboard editing screen.

Switch X Axis & Colors

On templates that have both an “X AXIS” and “COMPARE BY”, it is often convenient to switch the attributes used for “X AXIS” and COMPARE BY”.

You can do so by selecting the “Switch X Axis & Colors” option from the display dropdown. Selecting the option again will switch the analysis back to its original configuration.

Below shows an example of selecting the option on an analysis:

Legend

The Analytics Editor allows you to turn the legend on or off.  You can toggle the status of the legend by selecting “Show Legend” or “Hide Legend” from the display dropdown.

Labels

You can hide three types of labels that appear by default on your analyses:

• X axis titles
• X axis tick labels
• Y axis tick labels

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