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Overview

Charts are interactive visualizations you add to a dashboard. To build one, drag a Figure widget onto the canvas, pick a data source, set your dimensions and metrics, and choose a chart type. The preview updates as you configure it, so there is no separate “render” step.
The Build Chart tab of the tile editor, with the chart type selector (line, column, bar, pie, table, metric) and series settings.

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Chart Types

Go Fig has 14 chart types in two groups: A quick rule of thumb: time series go to Line or Area, category comparisons to Column or Bar, part-to-whole to Pie, a single KPI to Metric, correlation to Scatter, and stage drop-off to Funnel. Most charts support grouped, stacked, and 100% stacked variations when you add a series (breakdown) dimension. Switching chart type keeps your dimensions and metrics, so you can try a few without reconfiguring.

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Metric Widgets

Metric widgets show a single value with optional period-over-period comparison and a sparkline. For metrics where down is good (costs, defect rate), enable inverse colors so a decrease shows green.

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Maps

Maps plot geographic data and have three styles:
  • Bubbles: sized circles, where circle size is your metric value
  • Density: a heatmap overlay showing concentration
  • Filled: shaded regions (choropleth), where darker means higher
Your location field can be country names, US state codes, US ZIP codes, or latitude/longitude. Go Fig detects the format and geocodes names automatically. For 5-digit US ZIP codes, use the Filled style for a choropleth.
A map chart on a dashboard plotting sales by US ZIP code as a geographic density heatmap with a color scale legend.

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Heatmaps

Heatmaps need an X dimension, a Y (pivot) dimension, and a value metric.
The Y-axis pivot field is limited to 20 unique values. If your data has more, filter or group it before building the heatmap.

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Trend Lines and Anomaly Detection

On Line, Column, Bar, Area, and Scatter charts, you can add a trend line or turn on anomaly detection per metric (click a metric in the Values bucket to find these).
  • Trend lines: Linear, Logarithmic, Exponential, Polynomial, Power, or Moving Average. Optionally show the equation on the chart.
  • Anomaly detection: outlier points appear as red diamond markers.
Both are configured independently per metric, so you can put a linear trend on Revenue and a moving average on Orders in the same chart.

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Table Widgets

Table widgets display rows and columns of data on a live dashboard. You can resize columns by dragging the right edge of any column header, and resize rows by dragging the bottom edge of any row-number cell. Widths and heights are saved automatically.

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Tables in Exports

When you export a dashboard, table widgets render up to 50 rows and 10 columns in PNG and PDF exports, and 5 rows by 4 columns in dashboard thumbnails. For wider tables, use filters or a focused table view before exporting.