Altair® Panopticon

 

Panopticon Visualizations

Panopticon supports a wide range of information visualizations that are designed for fast comprehension and easy interpretation of static, time series, real time streaming, and historic data sets.

As no visualization is ideal for every purpose, the appropriate visualization for the analytical task at hand must be used. Here are some general recommendations:

Analytical Task

Recommended Visualization

Read numeric values quickly

Table / Pivot Table

Performance against a KPI

Bullet Graph, Tile, Ticker Tile, Donut Gauge

Performance across a single variable for a small number of data elements, with different magnitudes

Bar Graph, Tile, Ticker Tile

Performance across a single variable for a small number of data elements, each with similar magnitudes

Dot Plot

Performance across a single variable for a large number of data items

Heat Map

Performance across a single variable for a large number of data items, which have different importance values

Treemap, Circle Pack

Performance across a hierarchical or grouped dataset

Treemap, Circle Pack

Correlation between two categories of data

Heat Matrix, Network Graph

Relationships between categories of data

Network Graph

Correlation between two or more numeric data columns

Scatter Plot

Geographic correlations of data

Map Plot

Geographic Scatter Plot

Correlation over both a single numeric data column and various categories of data

Dot Plot

Trending performance across ordered categories

Dot Plot

Trending performance between two numeric variables

Numeric Line Graph

Trending performance between three numeric variables

Surface Plot (& 3D)

Trending performance across time

Line Graph

Time based Ranking

Line Graph with Ranking Axis

Time Based Contributions

Stack Graph

Time Based Correlations between time series

Horizon Graph

Time Based Transactions

Needle Graph

Financial Time Series Distributions

Candle Stick or OHLC Graph

Auction Price & Interest/Volume Distribution

Numeric Needle Graph

Geospatial Area Densities

Shapes

Spread between two time series

Spread Graph

Read numeric values quickly

Table / Pivot Table

Performance against a KPI

Bullet Graph, Tile, Ticker Tile, Donut Gauge

 

For more information on these visualizations, refer to the Altair Visualizations document.