Stack Graphs let you visualize quantitative changes to several datasets over time, and you can see how each datapoint contributes to the total.
Financial Services applications include looking at market cap data over time for several instruments in a portfolio, or reviewing stock price changes in various market sectors. In retail businesses, Stack Graphs are a great way to look at revenue or gross profit figures over time across several product lines.
 Stack Graphs are a good choice when you have up to ten or eleven time series datasets to look at, especially for datasets that have a large number of positive datapoints. They are excellent information visualizations to use in conjunction with our Treemap, Heatmap, Heat Matrix, or Horizon Graph tools since they provide different perspectives on the same set of data.
Percentage Area Graphs:
See how constituents contribute to the total
The Percentage Area Graph is a special type of Stack Graph that allows you to see how the components contribute to the total (100%) in percentage terms. It is an excellent choice for visualizing time series data when you are interested in seeing the relative contributions for each dataset in the series, regardless of the absolute total. This helps you see trends in how each component in the data has changed compared to the others which can easily be missed in a Stack Graph.
 Percentage Area Graphs let you visualize quantitative changes to several datasets over time, and you can see how each data point contributes to the total. However, instead of displaying absolute contributions as in the Stack Graph, the total is kept at 100% and each trace shows the relative portion of 100% that can be attributed to the total.
In a retail application, for example, Percentage Area Graphs are a great way to look at how sales of certain product lines are changing over time compared to all the other lines in the store. Applications include any instance where you need to be able to discern trends in market share, relative costs or relative profitability.
Incorporate Stack Graphs and Percentage Area Graphs in BI Dashboards
You can install and begin using our Panopticon EX system in a few hours. EX supports our complete range of information visualizations and allows you to build and publish multi-tabbed BI Dashboards in minutes.
Embed Stack Graphs and Percentage Area Graphs in your own applications
Our comprehensive Developer SDK lets you embed Stack Graphs and Percentage Area Graphs in your own applications. We provide you with detailed code examples and documentation that will help you get new data visualization-enabled applications up and running in just a few weeks.
Powerful StreamCube™ OLAP Data Model
Behind all Panopticon products is a powerful in-memory OLAP data model that serves as the underlying foundation for all visualizations. The different interactive graphs and maps all share the same basic structure and make use of different dimensions available of which the most obvious are color, size/height, layout and functionality of the popup bubble. For example, it’s easy to switch from a Line Graph view of your data to a Percentage Area Graph view. Users love the ability to look at things from more than one perspective. Our data model is truly unique in that it can support very large historical databases and also handle databases that are being constantly updated.
Availability
Stack Graph and Percentage Area Graph data visualizations are included in:
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