Available Widgets

This section describes the widgets that you can add to dashboards.

You can add many types of widgets to dashboards. Each widget visualizes data differently. This enables the best analysis and insight of the filtered data. The following table briefly describes the available widgets and their uses.

Widget	Description / Use
Numeric Data
Indicator	You can use indicator widgets to display one or two numeric values in a variety of options, such as a number, a gauge, or a ticker.
Charts with X and Y Axes
Column Chart	You can use column charts in different business scenarios, especially for comparing items and comparing data over time. Column charts can include multiple values on both the X and Y axes, as well as breakdowns by categories displayed on the Y axis.
Bar Chart	You can use bar charts to compare many items. Bar charts typically present categories or items (descriptive data) displayed along the Y axis, with their values displayed on the X axis. You can also break up the values by another category or groups.
Line Chart	You can use line charts for various business cases, including comparing data over time, or comparing changes over the same period of time for more than one group or category.
Area Chart	Area charts are very similar to line charts, except that the areas under each line are filled with color, and you can display them as stacked. Area charts are best used for displaying absolute or relative (stacked) values over a time period.
Scatter Chart	You can use scatter charts to display the distribution of two variables on an X axis, Y axis, and two additional dimensions of data (represented by color and size of the data points) that are shown as circles scattered across the chart.
Representing Proportions
Pie Chart	You can use pie charts to display proportional data and/or percentages.
Sunburst	You can use sunburst charts to visualize relationships within hierarchical data through a series of concentric rings, where each ring corresponds to a level in the hierarchy. Each ring can have multiple segments, with each segment showing the contribution of a particular dimension in that hierarchy. Sunburst charts are most effective at showing how one ring is broken into its contributing pieces.
Treemap	You can use treemaps to display hierarchical data in the form of nested rectangles. Treemaps are multidimensional widgets.
Tabular Data and Grids
Pivot	You can use pivot tables to quickly summarize and analyze large amounts of data into tabular form. Pivot tables often use multiple columns that represent categories and numeric summations of the underlying data.
Tab	You can use tabs to add tab headings to a dashboard to hide or unhide widgets on the dashboard based on which tab heading is selected.
Table	You can use tables to display broader views of your data, presenting raw and non-aggregated data in columns, with as many fields and metrics as needed.
Table with Aggregation	You can use aggregated tables to extend the functionality of tables by supporting aggregation across the whole table.
Text Narratives
Text	You can use text narratives in many charts and graphs. This embedded option provides additional textual insight into the underlying data. This text is dynamic and is updated based on changed filters and data selections. Dashboard users cannot edit this text; it is contextual based on the filtered data.
Geographical Data
Area Map	You can use area maps to represent geographical data as polygons on a map.
Scatter Map	You can use scatter maps to visualize geographical data as data points on a map.
Other Chart Types
Calendar Heatmap	You can use calendar heatmaps to visualize values over days in a calendar-like view, making it easy to identify patterns or anomalies.
Box and Whisker Plot	You can use box and whisker plots to visually describe the distribution, variability, and center of a data set along an axis.
Polar Chart	You can use polar charts to compare multiple categories or variables with a spatial perspective in a radial chart.
Funnel Chart	You can use funnel charts to show stages in a process that are sequentially dependent. The funnel shape helps you to track the health or validity of any process.