An Overview of Display Types

Learn how to toggle the data visualization in your analyses.

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.

Visualization Types

Analyses can be configered many different visualization types, such as bar charts or line types.  Each template has a different set of possible visualization 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), Universal Template

Grouped Bar Chart

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

Stacked Bar Chart

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

Line Chart

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

Multiseries Line Chart

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

Dot Plot

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

Grouped Dot Plot

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

Pareto Chart

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

Donut Chart

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

Scatter Plot

Templates available for: Universal Template

Gauge Chart

Templates available for: Universal Template

Histogram Chart

Templates available for: One operation, Universal Template

Box Plot

Template available for: Universal Template

Multiseries Box Plot

Template available for: Universal Template

Formatting Charts

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

Title and Subtitle

Toggle the title of an analysis. Click on the analysis title at the top of the screen to change it.
You can also toggle a custom subtitle to add more context for other users.

X Axis

Toggle the default X axis name, or create a custom name. You can also toggle the X axis tick labels and choose their orientation.

Y-Axis

Toggle the Y axis label and whether or not you want tick labels on the side of your analysis.

You can also set minimum and maximum bounds, the thresholds for data to appear on your analysis.

Series & Legends

Show legend
Toggle to view or hide the legend of the analysis.

Customize series
Set your own colors for each series in the chart.

Stacking

No stacking presents each series individually (ex. one bar represents each series)
Stacking presents a series as a contribution to a whole (ex. one bar combines mutliple series, each designated with different colors)

Data Labels

Toggle to view or hide data labels, which are numerical values of each series.

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