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Chart

Charts are Einblick's primary visualization tool. You can use them to display key insights, quickly profile or filter your data, and much more.

Creating a Chart​

Charts can be created in two ways, either by dragging out a attribute onto the canvas, or by creating it the same way as other operators by drawing it on the canvas.

Dragging attribute onto canvas​

You can drag out an attribute from a table column header. When a chart is dragged out in this method, a histogram for the column is automatically populated.

Configuring a Chart​

The primary way to configure a chart is by changing the Chart type, this will automatically configure your chosen axis attributes so that you get the chart you expect.

The remaining option menus all have the following options:

  • attribute: the column in the table to act on
  • binning: whether to bin the selected attribute based on the corresponding property. Options include:
    • No binning
    • Equi-Width binning: Uses bins of equal size
    • Natural binning: Creates bins by using k-means clustering along a single dimension
  • aggregation: the function used to determine the value of individual marks (points, bars, etc.) Options include:
    • No aggregation
    • sum
    • average
    • count
    • distinct count
    • min
    • max
    • standard deviation
  • sort: the sort order of data points
  • include zero: whether to include 0 in the corresponding axis or scale

Axes: x-axis, y-axis​

Using these menus, you can choose what attributes to include on each axis. In most cases, you must select two axes for the chart to render.

Color​

To provide additional information in a chart, coloring can be added according to another attribute. The way the coloring affects a chart is dependent on the chart type.

Size​

Similarly to color, mark size can be used to illustrate additional information. Currently size is only usable with Scatter plots.

Row and Column​

The row and column options allow you to show multiple plots, each plotting a subset of data points, based on the values of another attribute. This is very useful for doing a breakdown of a existing chart by examining how the change in a attribute affects the data.

Mark​

Mark type determines the kind of plot. The available options are bar, line, area, tick, point. This option is only available if you select the pivot chart type, and is automatically configured by the Chart type.

Chart Functionality​

Data Point Rendering Limit​

There is a default maximum of 200 points that can be rendered in a chart. Therefore, it's recommended to use binning and/or aggregation in a chart in order to to reduce the number of points that need to be rendered.

Filtering​

Charts can be used as filters for other operators. To use a chart as a filter, drag the filter icon onto the input of another operator.

Next, select the data points you want to include in the filter.

Filters can be managed using the Active Selections Menu, clicking on the menu will give a list of current slections, and give you the chance to remove them individually or clear all of them.

To manage a filter link, you can click on it to bring up the Filter Link Menu. This menu will allow to invert the selection (by selecting filter out vs filter by), delete the filter link, and view active selections.

Brushing

Similarly, rather than using selections as filters, they can be used to create visual highlights. Tapping a link/arrow will convert the filter link to a brush link, causing the selected subpopulation to be highlighted in the connected chart.

As with filters, an arbitrary number of brushes can be defined. Each brush gets its own assigned color. In case of an overlap of two brushes (e.g., leased cars that have not been used, in the example below), the overlap is indicated using an additional color.

Combining Filters

When multiple filters are used, you have the option of using either AND or OR logic between the filters.

To toggle whether AND or OR logic is used, click on the filter icons leading into the targeted dataframe and select the Show applied filters option. There should be a dropdown to change between AND and OR.