Data Visualizations

Reveal helps you get the most insight possible out of business data by providing a variety of visualizations.

What is a Visualization?

For users to get the most insight possible out of business data, Reveal provides several options to customize the way information is visualized. These are called "visualizations". Any dashboard is composed of one or more visualizations.

The dashboard shown below contains a wide variety of visualizations, all of which analyze different aspects of Sales.

Choosing the Right Visualization Type

In choosing the best chart type you need to look at your data and answer the questions that will help you find out what story you are trying to tell with your visualization.

Are you trying to compare data, show data distribution or present it as a part to a whole breakdown? Are you doing a trend analysis of your financial, marketing or sales data, need a date/time axis? Are you looking at relationships between data? Or you just want to show KPIs and gauges, which are really easy to read and tell a quick story? Is it important to plot your data on a map?

Answer what you want to show with your data and use the table below to choose the most suitable chart.

Compare Data	Bar	Column	Area	Spline	Combo	Circular Gauge	Spline Area	OHLC	Candlestick	Time Series
Part to Whole	Stacked Column	Stacked Bar	Stacked Area	Pie	Doughnut	Funnel	Treemap
Data Distribution	Step Area	Stacked Column	Scatter	Bubble
Data Trend Analysis	Line	Spline	Combo	OHLC	Candlestick	Radial	Time Series
Data Relationships	Scatter	Bubble	Line
KPIs and Gauges	Bullet Graph	Linear	Text	KPI	Circular
Geospatial Data	Choropleth Map	Scatter Map

If you need more information about how to use each of these visualizations, use the hyperlinks in the table.

Visualization Tutorials

Within this section, you will find basic, step-by-step tutorials for the Reveal visualizations. All sections use the Data Visualizations data source, which you can download using this link.

Area	Bar	Bullet Graph	Candlestick	Circular
Column	Doughnut	Funnel	Image	KPI
Line	Linear	OHLC	Pie	Radial
Sparkline	Spline	Spline with Area	Stacked Area	Stacked Bar
Stacked Column	Step Area	Step Line	Text	Text View