Area

Use an area visualization to emphasize the magnitude of change over time.

Area charts are like line charts, but the areas below the lines are filled with colors or patterns. Stacked charts are useful for comparing proportional contributions in a category. They plot the relative value that each data series contributes to the total.

Because an area visualization stacks the results for each column or item, the total of all results is easily seen.

For example, an area visualization is excellent for looking at revenue over time across several products.

For example, this area visualization shows the customer lifetime value for each vehicle class per month. Because the area visualization stacks the results, you see the totals for each month.

Example of an area visualization

The area visualization was created by dragging the following data items from the Sources panel:

  • Drag Expiry Month type onto the x-axis field.
  • Drag Vehicle Class onto the Color field.
  • Drag Customer Lifetime Value onto the y-axis field
Example of how to populate the fields for an area visualization

Samples

You can see an example of a word cloud visualization in the sample report Customer lifetime value analysis. You can find the sample here: Team content > Samples > Reports > Customer lifetime value analysis.

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