In this article, you are going to look at what are visualizations, types of visualizations, and their advantages.
Introduction:
Visualizations are graphical representations of data and information. It is a simpler way to understand trends and patterns in complex data using graphs, charts, and maps. This graphical form of representation helps you to analyze massive information in a simple and easy-to-understand format and helps communicate information clearly and effectively to make data-driven decisions.
Advantages of data visualizations :
1. The graphical representation format of visualizations provides a quick, and clear understanding of information to help draw conclusions and insights.
2. This graphical design helps to identify emerging trends and make quick decisions.
3. This infographic form of representation helps to identify relationships and patterns and solve larger problems.
4. Visualizations allow developing a new business language by creating narratives with graphs and charts to share a compelling story to uncover new insights.
5. Visualizing data provides an analysis at various levels of detail.
Types of Visualizations:
The best way to see data visualization is to see it. Impact Cloud V3 has a huge gallery of visualizations divided into various categories. You may pick up the best visualizations that suit your requirement.
When you think of data visualization, your first thought goes to simple bar chart or piecharts. While these may be an integral part of visualizing data and a common baseline for many charts, the right visualization must be paired with the right set of information. Some of the most popular types of data visualization :
- Big Number with Trendline
- Big Number
- Table
- Pivot Table V2
- Time series Line Chart
- Time series Area Chart
- Time series Bar Chart
- Time series scatter plot
- Bar Chart
- Pie Chart
- World Map.
- Histogram
These visualizations are just the tip of the iceberg. However, you can digger deeper and draw useful insights using visualizations organized into various categories.
Let's learn how to create a few visualizations.