Creating visualizations

Human beings are visual creatures. In the same way that a picture is worth a thousand words, so too can visualizations of data convey information and insights in a manner that is just not possible otherwise.

Creating your first visualization

Follow these steps to create your first visualization:

1. Begin by clicking on the Report view in the Views area.
2. In the Fields pane, if your Calendar table is not already expanded so that you can see the column names in the table, simply click the > icon to the left of the table name to expand the table and show the columns.
3. Start by clicking on the IsWorkDay column and drag and drop this column onto the canvas. Instantly, you have a clustered column chart whose y axis goes from 0 to 800. If you hover your mouse over the column, you will see the text IsWorkDay 782 displayed. This popup is called a Tooltip, and this indicates that there are 782 combined working days (Monday-Friday) in the years 2017...