This Barseries shows the cumulative return for the trailing 12 months on eight different hedge funds. Each fund is indicated by a different color. The height of each bar shows the return for a single month. Notice how easy it is to compare the performance of these funds. Click on image to see this Barseries in more detail.

Barseries visualizations let you spot trends quickly

The world’s major financial institutions rely on Panopticon Visual Business Intelligence tools to improve decision-making, reporting and analysis capabilities. Our Barseries visualization helps
users analyze 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.

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.

This Barseries shows the term structure chart for European Bond issues. The color of each bar indicates Asset Swaps. The height of each bar shows the exact Yield To Maturity. Each bar represents a single instrument, and the bars are grouped by Country. Click on image to see this Barseries in more detail.

You can think of our Barseries visualization as a graphic pivot table – the individual bars use color and size instead of numbers 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.

Easy to Use

Barseries is just like Panopticon’s other visualizations – easy to learn and easy to use. For example, if you are using our Explorer desktop product, you just drag and drop your data onto the application and the software will automatically create settings and plot a Barseries visualization for you. It’s that simple.

The Barseries visualization is very flexible and it is capable of displaying data in many different ways. Click on the above images to see these additional examples in more detail.

Embed Barseries in Your Application

Our comprehensive SDK lets you embed Barseries in your own application. We provide you with detailed code examples and documentation that will help you get Barseries-enabled applications up and running in just a few weeks.

Powerful Streaming OLAP Data Model

Behind all Panopticon visualizations is a powerful 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 treemap view of your data to a Barseries 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 real-time streaming data feeds from sources like Reuters, Bloomberg, or internal feeds coming in over Sonic MQ.

Availability

Barseries visualizations are available in all of our products, including our desktop product for Windows, our web-deployed enterprise products and our SDK. You can license Barseries as part of a bundle or separately from our other visualizations.