Bar Graphs are one of the most popular and well-understood data visualizations used in Business Intelligence Dashboards. Bar Graphs are especially useful when comparisons are critical to an understanding of the data.
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Bar Graphs — sometimes called Bar Charts — are easy to understand and are a great way to communicate important comparative information. Bar Graphs work especially well when comparing ten or fewer data items across a single quantitative variable. For displays including more than ten items, try using a Heat Map or Treemap instead.
Our Bar Graph visualizations can be oriented horizontally or vertically in information displays, making them easier to incorporate into multi-visualization layouts. Panopticon’s Bar Graph data visualizations give you a number of different display options and are easy to work into almost any Executive Dashboard or other type of information display. Like Scatter Plots, Treemaps and the rest of our information visualizations, our Bar Graphs are designed to work with real-time streaming data sources as well as static data.
The simplest form of the Bar Graph is completely intuitive. Sign up now for free evaluation Bar Graph software and try it for yourself using your own data.
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The design of our Bar Graph, like all of our information visualizations, emphasizes the data itself and eliminates unnecessary display items. For example, our grid lines are designed to be background items that help make the Bar Graph easier to comprehend quickly without being a distraction. We go further by enhancing the “data to ink ratio” by allowing Edward Tufte-syle grid line representations in which the grid is displayed by removing "ink" from the bars themselves.
Grouped Bar Graphs
 The Grouped Bar Graph is an excellent way to show information about categorized groups of data in a single information visualization. Different colors make it obvious how items are related and provide an easy-to-read display.
Spot trends in categorical data sets quickly with Barseries data visualizations
Our unique Barseries data visualization is a special form of Bar Graph that helps users analyze combinations of categorical and time series data in an intuitive graphical display.
Barseries can visualize several parallel time series simultaneously and makes it easy to see trends in complex financial data. Barseries can display historical data as well as information that is constantly being updated in real time. Barseries is an excellent companion to our popular Treemap and Heatmap visualizations since you can switch easily between the visualizations to see different aspects of the same dataset.
Graphic Pivot Table
You can think of our Barseries visualization as a graphic pivot table – the individual bars use color and size instead of numbers to communicate values. It supports grouping of data on several levels with pivoting in order to compare and analyze cross-sections of your data. Barseries can also function as a standard Bar Chart, but with a capacity for thousands of data points – all of which can be updated in real time. Our Barseries visualization is like an interactive Treemap that has the added dimension of time; this makes it possible to visually analyze changes and trends in time-based datasets.
Interactive Analysis of Real-Time Data
Barseries lets users plot historical data and predict future trends in seconds. They can slice and dice their data, drill down to view details, and compare several small or large time segments by creating new breakdowns on the fly. Simple, easy-to-read hover displays pop up when the cursor lingers over a single bar – or a selection of bars – in the Barseries, making it very easy to compare information about separate events in the timeline. Like all of our visualizations, the Barseries can handle real-time streaming data feeds along with historical static data inputs.
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