Project Spectrum

Changing Chart Types Has Never Been This Handy

The Problem

 
 

When I joined Transform we had not begun to look at our product like a BI tool with advanced authoring. I was curious about the concept of presenting the same metric data through different lenses and wrote this report

 
 
 
Mobile Data Viz Authoring Prototype

Mobile Chart Control Prototype

 
 

Taking it to the product.

Our CEO loved this concept but had not seen something like this on desktop and said, β€œYes! but how would you productize that?” The answer came a few months later when our company deicided to build Metric Boards and Query.

 

V1 Metric object model with chart type selector.

 

Conclusion

The chart type selector has grown to encapsulate many different chart types for many different scenarios.
It alwyas works no matter what data you are working with.

 

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