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Charts in WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Workbench AE provide a collection of familiar and novel ways of visualizing data that allow you to better understand your data, and what it is trying to tell you. The different charts available are categorized based on the number of field displays.
This section lists the available charts that allow one field displays.
Bar charts show the categories in a field and how other data is distributed across these categories. Use this to understand what the common categories are in a field.
Each category in a field is a slice of the pie. It is harder to make exact comparisons of pie slices than bars in a bar chart. However, selected subsets of pies can be compared directly as percents of the whole. This capability is brought to bar charts by the spine mode.
A sequence of categories, connected by a line. The line emphasizes the progression of data, so line charts are appropriate for data where adjacent items have a relationship (for example, time, location, and so on).
The number of occurrences of values of a numeric (continuous) field. This shows the distribution of the field, with smoothing to emphasize the overall shape of the curve.
This section lists the available charts that allow two field displays.
Show the occurrences of observations for two continuous fields. Look for patterns of relationship between the fields.
Plot the interaction of combinations of two categories. This can be viewed as a graphical 2D table. It may also be viewed as a categorical Scatter Plot.
A specialized view that shows events over time. It is a Scatter Plot with time on the X axis, with additional capabilities for categorizing data points based on other fields and for distinguishing multiple overlapping events.
Show the nesting of one field within another. Lower level items can be sized or colored by data, forming a space filling display, a map.
This section lists the available charts that allow multiple field displays.
Display data fields in a grid. The grid may be collapsed into an array of bar charts to allow patterns between fields to be studied. The grid may also be searched. A Data Sheet is often used to show details of data selected in other views. The Data Sheet shows data that has not been aggregated.
The ParaBox shows an array of field summaries. For continuous data, the field is summarized as a box plot. For categorical data, the data is summarized as a bubble plot. Lines may also be plotted over the display connecting the points for a single data row (observation). A ParaBox also shows how a subset differs from the overall population, or how particular observations take values from multiple fields in the context of the overall population. It is also useful for studying outliers.
Shows related objects represented as a graph of nodes and links. It provides a graph viewer and placement algorithms, for a layout of the graph. Data is provided in two tables, a table of nodes and a table of links between nodes.
Maps show data positioned over geography. The map may be an image or a set of polygons. A map provides all of the capabilities of the Data Constellations chart as well.
Summarize fields through common statistics (mean, standard deviation, mode, and so on).
Summarize measures for categories in a field (sum or average).
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