Insight Types

In Analytical Designer, you can visualize your data in many types of insights.

Each insight type has slightly different options and may enable you to display different types of data.

The table below shows what you can configure in each insight type:

Insight type

Metrics1)

View by2)Stack by3)AttributesTrend by2)Segment by3)RowsColumnsConfiguration4)Location

Pivot table

5)

Column chart

Bar chart

Line chart

Stacked area chart

Combo chart

5)

Headline

5)    

Scatter plot

 

5)

Bubble chart

 

5)

Pie chart

Donut chart

Treemap

 

Heatmap

Bullet chart

 

5)

Geo chart (pushpin)

 

5)

Pyramid chart

Funnel chart

Dependency wheel

 

6)

Sankey diagram

 

6)

Waterfall chart

 

1) Allows facts, metrics, and aggregated attributes.

2) Allows only one attribute or date.

3) Requires only one item in the Metrics section.

4) The configuration options differ for each insight type.

5) Has multiple Metrics sections.

For information about creating insights, read Create Insights.

Common characteristics

In every insight, you can:

  • Display facts, metrics, and attributes.

  • Filter each fact, metric, and attribute by date. For details, see Filter Metrics by Date.

  • Filter each fact, metric, and attribute by attributes.

  • Rename any fact, metric, or attribute. For more details, see Rename Metrics.

  • Change insight properties. For details about insight properties, see Configure Insight Properties.