Create a Chart Report in Visualizer, dashboard tutorial

Navigate to Visualizer.

In Visualizer, you choose the data you want to show in a chart or table. Birst arranges the columns into two groups, "Measures" and "Attributes". Measures are things that can be counted, and by default Birst considers any column based on numbers (integer or whole) to be a measure. Attributes are things that are descriptive of actual objects or indications of date or time. When you are naming a chart, we recommend a "Measure by an Attribute" format.

Note: In a Visualizer chart, you can have multiple measures and attributes, though it is good to keep charts as simple as possible so that the information can be absorbed quickly.

If you only want to show attributes, you can use a Visualizer table.

For this chart exercise use two measures and one attribute. Click the Measures section.

Then double-click the UnitsInStock and UnitsOnOrder. The default bar chart starts building in the work area.

Note: When you rest your cursor over a section, a popup window with details is displayed.

Click Subject Area to get to Attributes.

Click Prepared Source, then scroll down to click ProductName.

You can drag Units In Stock down to the Sort section.

Now you can view what products are out of stock and possibly not yet on order.

Click Save and specify a Report Name, such as Stock.

The chart is now available in Visualizer for more edits, if needed. For example, You can make other changes to the report, such as changing its chart type.

You can also make a few more Visualizer reports with this Modeler data set, for example:

Add Reorder Level to the chart that has Units In and Units on Order
A table showing Supplier Company, its Country, Product Names, and Product IDs