8. Charts¶

In Simlytiks, charts and graphs are organized as visualizations. With 40+ rich, interactive visualization options, or individual data explorations, we can transform our data into visual expressions that make it easier to understand and compare.

^{Finished Fruits Bubble Chart}

Visualizers¶

Visualizers can be found underneath the Visualization Menu. Each visualizer has a designated icon, a main placeholder and a specific placeholder for each option. Here are some basic Simlytiks’ visualizers and their functions:

Icon	Name	Function	Placeholder
	Table	presents a 2D view of data columns of text and numbers
	Box Plot	shows distribution of data with quartiles aids in identifying outliers
	Curve Plot	plots time-history data can visualize up to 5 dimensions
	Gallery	view images and movies play, pause and overlay them
	Parallel Coord.	view multi-dimensions in a 2D space wise column choosing provides deep data insights
	Line Chart	track changes in data
	Donut Chart	explore relationships of data groups as sums of a whole best with less categories
	Scatter Plot	explore relationships between variables best for multi-valued variables
	Bar Chart	compare groups and track large changes
	Multi-line Chart	compare series of data across multiple groups

The below image showcases the icons for all the charts available in the application. We’ll go over how to learn more about each chart in the application in the next subsection.

^{Figure 1: 40+ Rich, Interactive Visualizers}

Adding Charts¶

The most common way to add a chart to a page section is through the visualizer menu. The following video goes through the basic process of adding a visualization this way. Make sure to read on for more ways to set up a chart.

Ways to Add Charts and Data¶

There are three main ways to choose visualizations for our pages.

^{Figure 2: Adding Visualizations}

Click on Add Visualization. This menu is located in the top bar commands. Hover over visualizations to view their basic placeholders and descriptions.
Click on Run Wizard. The wizard allows us to explore and set up charts in a separate window. We can review the library of visualizers in the first step and explore how they look in the second before committing to adding them in the last step. To access it, click on the button at them bottom of the visualization menu.
Click on chart icons or Add Chart. Use the quick or direct links to add directly to that page section.

Watch the video below to see how to execute the above ways of adding charts to pages.

Each chart has detailed placeholders to help illustrate what it does. Hover over chart options (i) to view more specific placeholders. Here is an example of how placeholder images with appear:

We can add inputs by dragging and dropping data columns from the left panel of Responses or choosing them in the drop-down menu that appears when clicking in the input box. Once we indicate required inputs, we’ll see a preview of our chart. We can use the real-time preview to explore options and choose exactly how we want our chart visualized before accepting it. Watch the following video to see how it’s done.

Guide Steps¶

Charts with multiple options for setting up now have guide steps for basic understanding. Find this option under guide me when adding a visualization to a page layout.

^{Figure 3: Guide Steps for Setting Up a Chart}

The guide will take us through up to 5 steps to help us render a basic chart. Here is an example of the guide for bubble chart:

Editing Charts¶

There are two main ways to edit charts, one of which is only available for a couple of them.

^{Figure 4: Editing Visualizations}

Quick Edit: This option is available for vertical bar chart and bubble chart.
Edit Viz: This option takes us back to our initial inputs page to edit them.

Titles & Axes¶

We have the option to update the chart title, axis titles and axis ticks simply by clicking on their locations in the chart. The following video shows how this is done:

Quick Edit¶

The quick edit option is available for bar charts and bubble chart to change main inputs such as x data, y data and label by. To open the quick edit drop-down, click on the parameter icon in the top right corner of the chart area. Watch the video below to see a quick editing example for Bubble Chart:

Quick edit options will be available for more charts in the future.

Label Editor¶

Click on a Label to edit it. The label editor also supports variables.

^{Figure 5: Label Editor}

Numerical Color Scales¶

When we color data based on a numerical column in a chart, we have the option to choose from a variety of preset color scales. Check out the following video to see how it works:

When a numerical column is color input, you have the option to set colors by selecting a color palette from the dropdown.

^{Figure : Numerical color palette}

Bubble Chart Options¶

Bubble Chart (or Scatter Plot) has a variety of unique capabilities for exploring data. Here are a few important customizations and options.

Bounding Boxes¶

Under the appearance tab when editing your bubble chart, you can choose to create bounding boxes around specific nodes and color them respectively.

Curves By and Curve color by¶

New input features Curves By and Curve color by are added to scatterplot visualization in Simlytiks.

Bubble chart has an option under right-click to remove outlier nodes for a more balanced and contained chart. Newton Curve Plotter also has this option. Learn about it here.

^{Curves By and Curve color by}

The bounding boxes adjust accordingly when editing node placements on the chart.

Remove Outliers¶

Bubble chart has an option under right-click to remove outlier nodes for a more balanced and contained chart. Newton Curve Plotter also has this option. Learn about it here.

^{Figure 6: Remove Outliers}

Multiple X and Y Data¶

When we have numerical values for an existing scatter plot, we can choose multiple X and Y data creating a must-scatter plot.

Label Visibility¶

When we have multiple labels on our bubble charts (via the Appearance tab when editing the chart), we can turn them on our off for individual nodes by clicking on the respected node.

^{Figure 7: Editing Label Visibility}

Watch the following video to see it in action as well as how to reset the visibility (chart right-click).

Envelopes¶

New as of September, 2022, we can add envelopes to our bubble charts. This allows us to groups certain aspects of our chart by highlighting them under an envelope. The option can be found under the appearance tab when editing a bubble chart and includes options to color the envelopes by a certain criteria.

^{Figure 8: Envelopes}

In Scattered plot, the Envelope by option now works in combination with the Animation option.

^Envelopes

Added new option in Scatter plot visualization to control opacity of the envelopes using a slider in Simlytiks.

^{Envelope Opacity}

New option is now available to change the position of the envelope label in Scatter plot visualization.

^{Envelope Text position}

Envelopes (clusters) in bubble chart now have a new customization to show the centroid of the cluster which when clicked will show the cluster statistics in a modal in Simlytiks.

The centroids added to the Scattered plot visualization has a new option called ‘Fix complex polygon centroids by input positions’ which sets the centroid correctly to complex polygons in Simlytiks

^{Fix complex polygon centroids by input positions}

Enable Heat Map¶

New as of October, 2022, if we have a color scale enabled for a numerical color by, we can enable a heat map of the plot.

^{Figure 9: Enable Heat Map}

Once the option is enabled, we’ll see the coloring behind the bubbles, shown as a gradient wall. This visualizes best when we have a tight bubble chart where the bubbles are closer together.

^{Figure 10: Heat Map Bubble Chart}

Overlapping labels¶

Bubble chart with overlapping labels now have a new Overlapping Algorithm called Annealing which will go through 1000 iterations and find the best possible solution using a brute force method in Simlytiks.

Scattered Plot has new options added in Plot Area Formatter to overcome overlapping labels. Overlapping Algorithm has options such as Force Layout, Annealing and a Brute Force method with an extra option below it called Show Connectors to show connections between the bubbles and the label boxes.

Fill Circles¶

Added new options for Bubble Chart called Fill Circles and Fill Opacity in the colors tab.

Fill Circles option is removed in Scatter plot Visualization and the color By is shown by default. The fill opacity slider is available to change the opacity of the filled color in the Bubbles

^Opacity

Image By¶

Scatter Plot Visualization ‘Image By’ option now shows only PNG, JPEG, GIF and SVG inputs in Simlytiks

Images¶

Bubble chart now supports Images in the axes and Images can be added in Tools -> Customize -> Media option in Simlytiks.

Remove Stroke¶

Scatter plot has a new option called Remove Stroke which disables the stroke of the bubble when this option is turned on in Simlytiks.

Highlight Bubbles¶

Scatter plot has new option to Highlight the bubbles in Simlytiks. The Highlighted bubbles can be given a new name, color and shape.

When bubbleShapeBy is enabled, the legends of the shapes are shown on the right hand side

^{Bubble shape}

Group Factors¶

Added a new option called Grouping Factors in the Grouping tab for Scatter plot Visualization in Simlytiks.

Local Grouping option is now available for Scatter plot visualization.

Color orientation¶

Color Gradient chart is shown and can be edited when numerical column is added to Color By and bin scale is enabled in bubble chart. We can save these settings to the visualization using Save as option.

Color Gradients are available and can be edited or sorted when Categorical column is selected in Color By option for Bubble chart. We can add new color gradient edit them and save them to the visualization using the plus icon in Color Scheme.

Scatter plot now has new options such as colorRange, colorAboveRange and colorBelowRange when a numerical column is chosen for colorBy. These changes will change the colors of the bubbles and are also reflected in the color legends.

Simlytiks will now show alert message asking the user to either add the changes as a new color scheme or update the existing one when we rearrange the color legends or make changes for the colors in bubble chart visualization.

Opacity By¶

Scatter Plot -> Appearance option->Opacity By now has new customization options to make it reversed, add an opacity range, change colors for bubbles above & below opacity range.

When a numerical column is used for Opacity By in Bubble chart the customization settings has a new option called show Min Max Range which will display the opacity legends in the form of a min-max scale instead of bins like before

In Scatter plot visualization, bubble Opacity Min and Opacity Max are now in the Appearance tab and will show up when Opacity By is selected and Colors for bubbles outside of the opacity range are in Colors tab

Animate By Opacity¶

Scatter plot has a new option ‘Animate By Opacity’ in Appearance tab which is shown when opacity By is enabled. This will animate the bubbles opacity every second in Simlytiks.

New option available to ‘use static axis range from original data’ when animate by is added to Scatter plot visualization. This option shows static range of axis for the filtered bubbles during animation iterations.

^{Use static axis range}

Animate By feature in Scatter plot visualization has new option to Filter or Highlight the bubbles in visualization during animation iterations.

In Scatter plot visualization, all animate options are now available under the visualization preview.

^{Animate by options}

We can now export the animation iterations of Scattered plot visualization into GIF in Simlytiks

‘Color data using animation buckets’ option is now available while animating the Scatter plot visualization which colors the bubbles based on the column name when enabled.

Use equal spacing ticks¶

New option ‘Use equal spacing in ticks on both X and Y axis’ is available in the appearance tab for the Bubble chart visualization in Simlytiks.

:sup:`Use equal spacing ticks `

Default Shape¶

Scatter plot has new option called Bubble Default Shape which is a list of different kinds of shapes that will replace the default circles in the visualization.

Custom Highlighters¶

Bubble Chart Visualization in Simlytiks has new option called Custom Highlighters. We can provide color and shape for a range of bubbles by selecting the column.

Scatter plot in Simlytiks has two new options to add the Confidence band and to change the Confidence interval under Appearance tab.

Bubble Chart has new option in the Appearance Tab to select the Type of scatter band in Simlytiks.

Hovering on Size By legends, Opacity By Legends or Thickness legends in Scatter Plot Visualization will now highlight the corresponding circles in the chart

Size By¶

In Scattered plot, when a numerical column is chosen for SIZE_BY and the number of unique values in that numerical column are less than 5, the legends are now shown as independent values instead of a color scale.

In Scattered plot, If a categorical column in size_by has numbers in it then the bins in size_by are sorted by that number.

Label By¶

In Scatter plot,If Label By option is selected where Bubble Color By is already picked, then the labels are colored by default with the same color chosen in Bubble Color By.

In Simlytiks, when images are used in the Label by, new options are available under settings of the label by to choose the Height and Width of the image.

Bubble chart visualization has new option in appearance tab called ‘Constrain Labels within Bounds’ which helps to bound the circles within the visualization chart.

^{Constrain labels}

In Scattered plot, the Label By in appearance tab now supports customization options to add filters and apply them to labels of the visualization in Simlytiks.

KDE By¶

Bubble Chart visualization has a new option called Show Axes KDE which will now show the X, Y axis Kernel Density plot along the axis in Simlytiks.

In Simlytiks, Bubble Chart has new option in appearance tab to change the position of the legends in the visualization.

Global Range¶

In Scatter plot visualization, new options to use global range is available in the colors tab which when enabled will use the global records to determine the colors of dataset in Simlytiks.

Custom Bins¶

In scatter plot visualization, custom bins can be added to color by options when numerical column is used in color by option with bin scale turned on. Once this setting is saved we can see the same custom bins for other visualization with same columns.

Bubble chart now has support to auto bin the X values using the customization option for binScale and specifying the number of bins (5 by default)

^{customization option for binScale}

3d Scatter Plot¶

The 3D version of Bubble Chart, 3D Scatter Plot, allows you to view nodes in a 3D space with a 3D-surface plot option.

It has a matrix type edit panel within dynamic settings for ease of editing.

^{Figure 11: Matrix Type Edit Panel}

3D scattered plot visualization can create a surface plot for the scattered plot in Simlytiks.

^{3D scatter surface plot}

Tooltips are now available for bubbles in 3D scatter plot visualization in Simlytiks.

^{3D scatter Tooltips}

Data Classifier¶

Data Classifier is Simlytiks’ Machine Learning visualizer that can predict data from one column into another.

Here is a video example of the chart:

Geo Map¶

Simlytiks’ Geo Map visualizer, new-and-improved with a built-in world map, takes location-based data and uses it to create a data map.

^{Figure 12: Geo Map Visualizer}

Summary Table¶

Summary table supports all types of data in its cell in order to create a customized summary of the dataset.

^{Figure 13: Summary Table Visualizer}

Add responses, specific data, curves, images and other types of data to the summary table’s cells.

^{Figure 14: Add to Summary Table Cells}

NEW as of June 10, 2022: Export merged cells from the Summary Table into a PPT table.

^{Figure 15: Merged Summary Table Cells}

Summary Table visualization now has a new option to add an external Hyperlink which can be a static URL or can be fetched from a remote lookup chosen by the user.

Summary table visualization has a new font size option called Custom which will add another option to specify manual font size which will be carried over to Reporter.

^Custom

Added new option in Summary table visualization for the rows to take up entire height in Simlytiks.

^rows

Confusion Matrix¶

Confusion Matrix uses Machine Learning to predict performance via classification by learning from actual and predicted values. The result is a 4x4 matrix showing negative or positive in each cell to show performance level.

^{Figure 16: Confusion Matrix}

Ped Pro Table¶

Ped Pro (short for Pedestrian Protection) Table presents a table of cells which map the HIC points on a car hood. The HIC values are placed in color ranges which determine the total score calculated at the top.

^{Figure 17: Ped Pro Table}

Ped Pro Threshold¶

We can update the ranges, colors and factors for the Ped Pro HIC value thresholds under the Colors tab when editing the chart. Watch the following video to see how it is done.

Ped Pro Formats¶

Per Pro Table now supports custom formats aside from the Euro NCAP format. When custom is chosen, the y and x axes reflect the input data. We can then choose to change the minimum and maximum values for each as well as the step. Watch the following video to see how it’s done but make sure to read on for a step-by-step tutorial as well.

Start by clicking on the pencil icon to edit the Ped Pro chart (hover over the top-left corner of the chart to see the pencil).

^{Figure 18: Edit Ped Pro Chart}

Navigate to the Appearance tab (tabs are located at the bottom of the edit panel).

^{Figure 19: Navigate to the Appearance Tab}

Under PedPro Standard, choose the Custom option.

^{Figure 20: Choose Custom Option}

Now under the same tab, we can edit the x min/max, y min/max and x-step as desired.

^{Figure 21: Edit X/Y Min/Max and X-Step}

And under the grouping tab, we can edit the x bins, y bins and y-step as desired.

^{Figure 22: Edit X/Y Bins and Y-Step}

Pedpro Table visualization has Condition Based Colors UI within color groups and also supports gradients.

:sup: Condition Based Colors UI

Timeline Chart¶

As of October, 2022, Simlytiks has a new visualizer called Timeline chart, similar to Gantt, which allows us to map time-sensitive data.

^{Figure 23: Timeline Chart}

Dragging of Timeline blocks in Timeline visualization is saved to the settings

:sup: Timeline Blocks

If the number of dropdown options in Simlytiks visualization preview exceeds four, the dropdown appears on the right, similar to Outlook.

^{Figure 24: Dropdowns in Visualizations Preview}

In Timeline chart- Dependent tasks are immediately updated when higher parent task is updated.

^{Figure 24: Dropdowns in Visualizations Preview}

Timeline Chart visualization has new option to specify Delay column by days.

^{Delay By Day}

In Timeline, Color Block By fills color to the Blocks and Color Label By adds color to Y- Axis Labels.

Label Color By has same color of Color By Legends in Timeline Chart.

Red arrows available when Deadlines are added to Gantt Chart, will change their fill color when Tasks that are dragged intersect with the arrows.

In Timeline chart , the dragging of the blocks to the previous date will color the blocks in orange and the dragging of Timeline blocks to next date will show the dragged blocks in green color.

In Timeline chart, the reset option has a dropdown menu with ‘Restore Initial Settings’ (i.e. settings/block drags with which the chart was first rendered ) and ‘Reset All’ which will erase all of the settings to go back to default view.

Deadlines in Gantt Chart¶

We can now import Deadlines to Timeline chart using CSV file and can be saved to settings in Simlytiks.

Deadline legend names and colors can be edited and saved to settings in Timeline chart visualization.

The Original date and the Modified date is available for Tasks in Timeline chart visualization when tasks are dragged and modified.

Partitions¶

Added new options called ‘Partitioned By’ to Timeline chart visualization under appearance tab in Simlytiks. This will partition the timeline blocks into percentages and also show the texts within the partitions based on the column chosen .

In Timeline visualization, new option is added in Appearance tab to enable a second axis at the bottom of the chart. This axis will be helpful when zoom/pan is enabled.

In Timeline chart, enable zoom option will support vertical zoom which will allow dragging/panning across vertical Y axis

The Partitioned timeline blocks in Gantt chart can now be right clicked and marked/unmarked as DONE which will also be saved to the settings in Simlytiks.

The colors of the timeline blocks are updated with green and yellow. When we drag the time line block to next date the blocks are colored in yellow and when we drag them to previous dates they are colored in green.

Table¶

Custom font size option is now added to Font size options in Table visualization.`

^{Font size options}

Radar plot Chart¶

Input columns in the radar plot can be viewed in distinct radar plots by clicking on “Small Multiples”. Each plot can be compared with these by overlaying another new column by choosing one from the “Choose a column to Overlay” dropdown.

^{Figure 24: Multiple Radar Plots}

You have option to overlay multiple plots in Radar plot.

^{Overlay Radar Plots}

Radar plot visualization has new option to normalize the values to between 0-1.

^{Radar Plot Normalize}

Radar plot has new options in appearance tab to change No of ticks and Font size

^{Radar Plot Number of Ticks}

Color min and Color max for curves¶

Colors interchanged color Min to be blue and color Max to be red in Simlytiks.

:sup: Color Min and Color Max

Image Annotator¶

Image annotator allows us to annotate the images by importing the image. now we have support for annotations and polygons in Image annotator paint board.

^{Image annotator Paint Board}

We see image in the annotator for the column, If column is assigned an Image in customize option

^{Image annotator assigning Images}

View mode is enabled in Image Annotator, where only enlarge option is showed in view mode for Annotator

^{Image annotator enlarge option}

In Image annotator - Adding of arrows, rotating them and resizing them is made simpler.

^{Image annotator Arrow}

Annotations position in the Image Annotator is fixed in the enlarged view and we can disable/enable the annotations for Image Annotator in Simlytiks.

Annotation counters in Image Annotator can now be assigned curves and also the counters have a new option to show the assigned curves to counters in a table format (with sparkline curves)

Image Annotator has a new option to add/remove Taglines in Simlytiks. Right click any response annotation (the one dragged and dropped) and you will see a new option to Add/Edit Tagline which has its own font and text and sits below the response.

Image Annotator now has support to show Sparklines in Simlytiks Right click any curve response or any annotation that has a associated curve and you will see a Show/Hide Sparkline option.

Image annotator has new option to Show/Hide Distribution which will show a box plot for numerical columns.

Image Annotator Visualization has a new feature to add annotations in a Connection inside the visualization.This feature helps us to add responses and connections to the Image Annotator with box plots and analyze them.

Assign Curve option is working as expected in Image Annotator Visualization.

Shapes can be added and removed from Image annotator Visualization.

Frequency plot¶

Frequency plot now has option to change visualization to vertical in Simlytiks.

^{Frequncy Plot options}

Frequency Plot visualization supports both Numerical and Categorical columns in Simlytiks.

vertical bar chart¶

Added Show groups option in vertical bar chart to group charts and to make charts look more clear and accurate.

^{Vertical bar chart show groups}

Vertical Bar Chart is now created correctly when Grouping type option is selected under Groups tab in Simlytiks

Vertical Bar chart now has a new option in the Grouping tab called Cumulative Bar Chart which will help display the bars in a cumulative fashion i.e. aggregation of each bar based on its previous bars.

^{Cumulative Bar Chart}

Vertical bar chart now supports Images in the axes and Images can be added in Tools -> Customize-> Media option in Simlytiks.

Vertical bar chart has a new option in Grouping tab called Grouping Limit which will limit the number of bars to specified value.

Vertical bar chart has new option under the grouping tab called Local Grouping in Simlytiks.

Vertical bar chart Local grouping when enabled shows a new option called Limit Local Groups which will show the top ‘n’ number of groups in the drilled down version.

Stacked By option is added to Vertical Bar charts in Simlytiks.

^{Stacked By}

Vertical Bar charts in Simlytiks now support Brushing. We can Select/Highlight the Bar charts and apply filters to them.

The axis option of the vertical bar chart now has a new feature called ‘Rotate ticks’ which helps in rotating the axis labels at a given angle.

^{Rotate ticks}

Gallery Visualization¶

Support for an option called max Visible in Image Gallery in the appearance tab to let user have control on how many images are to be shown in one line (instead of the default 3)

In Gallery visualization an alert message is shown with an icon that has a pop-up showing the URL of the image when image is either unavailable OR cannot be fetched.

^{alert message}

QQPLOT Visualization¶

QQPLOT is added as new visualizer for Simlytiks datasets.

VIOLIN PLOT Visualization¶

VIOLIN PLOT is added as new visualizer for Simlytiks visualzations.

^{VIOLIN PLOT Visualization}

CALENDAR HEATMAP Visualization¶

CALENDAR HEATMAP is added as new visualizer for Simlytiks visualizations.

^{CALENDAR HEATMAP Visualization}

Calendar Heatmap visualization has colorby support with Numerical Gradients.

Parallel chart Visualization¶

Parallel chart dimensions can now be dragged and re-arranged using a drag-handle at the center of each axis in Simlytiks.

Added new supporting features for Parallel chart visualization in Simlytiks.

Parallel chart has new option to show KDE which adds a curve on the right side of all numerical dimensions.

^{KDE option}

Table view in Parallel chart visualization has Interactivity. When we highlight the curves in chart the corresponding values are viewed in the table.

New option added in Parallel Visualization to show correlation of all columns against one particular column in the Chart.

^Correlation

Show KDE option in Parallel chart now fills up the Area instead of just a Curve in Simlytiks.

^{Show KDE}

New option added to Parallel chart in Appearance tab to show Standard Deviations. It will show the values at the bottom of every numerical axis.

^{Standard Deviations}

Parallel plot has a new option called Show Heatline (in Appearance tab) which will render heatlines in the axis based on the density.

Images are available in Dimensions and Table when Enabled in Parallel Chart Visualization.

If an image column is used in the dimensions of the Parallel Chart Visualization, new options show up in Appearance tab to control the height & width of Images.

Dragging of Responses or Columns to the input of the visualization while creating a Visualization is working as expected.

When a Visualization is dropped onto an existing Visualization, New option called Add to end along with Replace, Add on new page is shown and this option will make the page charts a carousel in Simlytiks.

New option Enable Smooth Lines is added to Parallel chart now renders the same lines in form of Bezier curves. We also have option to display both Linear & Smooth lines at once.

^{Enable Smooth Line}

Parallel chart Visualizations now support sorting. Sorting tab has new options called Sort By Column and Sort Order.

Every dimension has Axis options to edit Min/Max values, Font size, Ticks in Parallel chart visualization.

^{Axis Options}

Appearance tab has a new option to change the legends font size in parallel chart visualization.

Decision Tree Visualization¶

New visualizer Decision Tree is added to Simlytiks when view type can be changed to Horizontal, Vertical and Radial and we can add the conditions to build a decision tree.

2D Contour Terrain Visualization¶

Added new visualizer 2D Contour Terrain to Simlytiks where we provide different columns to form a Matrix and create a visualization.

Density Contour Plot Visualization¶

Added new visualizer Density Contour Plot to Simlytiks where we provide X data and Y data to create a Visualization and we can also color the Density contour plot.

New option called Bandwidth is added to Density contour plot visualization.

^{Bandwidth option in Density Contour Plot}

Density Contour Visualization has a new option to set the Opacity of the contours.

Sparkline Matrix Visualization¶

Added a new chart Type along with Sparkline and Color panels called Y MIN/MAX which will show min/max Y values at time for each of the panels in Sparkline Matrix visualization

Sparkline Matrix has a new Peak Force Time Contour visualization type in Simlytiks.

Average¶

New view called ‘Average’ is added along with the min view and max view in Sparkline Matrix.

Average Values¶

Sparkline Matrix now has option to show individual average values when comparing multiple records. Average values for individual records.

^{SHOW INDIVIDUAL AVERAGE}

New option Show Moving Average is added to Sparkline Matrix visualization in Simlytiks.

^{SHOW MOVING AVERAGE}

Highlight min/max¶

New options are added to Highlight min/max values and to Display x values in Sparkline matrix.

Panel transparency¶

New option is now available to change opacity of the color panels in Sparkline Matrix. By default, the color panels are 100% opaque. With this new option, the panel opacity can be changed to go from 100% opaque to fully transparent. Following Video demonstrates this where we see the contour of the panels based on the max-acceleration and how we can change the opacity from 100% (opaque) to some level of transparency.

Color min and color max¶

Color min and color max will help distinguish the colors in Sparkline Matrix. We can change the color using color panel and save the colors.

Ymin and Ymax in Sparkline Matrix visualization¶

We have options to specify Ymin and Ymax in Sparkline Matrix visualization, If any cell registers a value beyond the range, the data from that cell can be ignored for calculations

Magnitude¶

Added support to specify Magnitude and converts the curve data into Magnitude which start from 0 and extends to +max value in Sparkline Matrix

Selection of Cells¶

We can now drag and choose cells in Sparkline Matrix to select them and we can label them using right click options. Labels can be edited and Hidden.

^{Selection of Cells}

New option ‘Enable Container Drag and Resize’ is added to Sparkline Matrix visualization.

Add Empty Cells¶

Sparkline Matrix visualization allows us to add empty cell in the desired location of the Matrix. We can add multiple empty cells by adding commas in the option.’

Sliders¶

New slider is added in Sparkline Matrix on the right which will show the Y value at that X and accordingly color the panels in Simlytiks.

^Slider

A new option is added to Sparkline Matrix in the Misc tab to Set X at Max Y called Slide to Max Y which shows where the Y value is the maximum.

^{Slide to Max Y}

The Time slider values do not reset and remains the same when we switch to other chart types in Simlytiks.

Options¶

Sparkline matrix has a new option called Image By which will allow the user to add a background image to the container in Simlytiks

^{Background Image}

Two new options added in Misc tab called Animation Step and Animation Frame Delay which will change the timeout and the step of the animation slider for Sparkline Visualization

Sparkline Matrix has a new option in the Misc tab called Digitize points which will digitize the number of points in each of the curves which can help improve the overall performance especially if the dataset has some large curves.

The Animation Slider (time) is available in the exported screenshot of Sparkline Visualization.

^{Animation slider export}

Export¶

Export button is added in the header for Sparkline Matrix visualization which exports the Sparkline matrix as GIF in Simlytiks.

^{Export GIF}

Baseline Option¶

New option added called baseline to support is added to Sparkline Matrix. When comparing two or more vehicles and their corresponding Matrices, we should be able to lock one of them as the baseline and identify the difference [Ymin, Ymax, average] of the other vehicle(s)

Box plot Visualization¶

Boxplot now shows the ID of the outliers in the tooltip when hovered over any outlier in Simlytiks.

^{ID for Box plot}

Boxplot has a new option called show Images In Header And Footer based on min max values of the column chosen for the box plot. The image column is shown in the box plot container which can be clicked to enlarge as well.

Sorting support is now added to the Box plot visualization in Simlytiks

^{Box Plot Sorting}

Multibox plot/Grouped box plot Visualization¶

Multiboxplot domains are rounded up to avoid out-of-bound points.

Added option to allow positioning of blocks based on curve name (using Regular expressions) and once available, add another option to add an Empty cell at a desired location in Sparkline Matrix Visualization.

Grouped box plots has new option in appearance tab that will show the count in the X-axis tick in Simlytiks.

^{X axis ticks}

Histogram Visualization¶

New options added to show Mean Value Lines and Standard Deviation Lines in Histogram Visualization Appearance tab.

^{Selection of Cells}

Mean Value Lines and Standard Deviation Lines in Histogram Visualization now act as datum lines. Histogram visualization also supports adding Datum line anywhere on the chart.

Histogram Visualization now support options – 1/ Bins which decides the number of bins to use to plot and 2/ KDE to show the kernel density function for the chart.

Horizontal bar chart Visualization¶

Horizontal bar chart in Simlytiks has a new option within Sort By dropdown at the top to sort by Absolute values. This will be useful when the chart has negative values.

Horizontal bar chart now supports Images in the axes and Images can be added in Tools -> Customize -> Media option in Simlytiks.

Horizontal bar chart visualization in Simlytiks now supports adding of Datum line to the visualization. We can add/remove or edit the datum line added to the bar chart.

Horizontal Bar chart visualization in Simlytiks has new sorting options in Sorting tab.

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Sort by absolute value in Horizontal bar chart visualization now sorts the chart values correctly and this sorting will be in sync with legend colors.

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Horizontal bar chart has new options ‘Stack by’ under ‘Grouping’ to stack the bars based on a column in Simlytiks.

Horizontal bar chart has new options in Appearance tab to display the bar values and also an option to rotate them (90deg).

Horizontal bar chart has a new option to define the bar values font size in Simlytiks.

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Horizontal bar chart has a new option to define the legends font size in the Appearance tab.

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ML button in Scattered plot¶

ML Button in Scatter plot is added. It simply turns green on completion and has a cog icon beside it which will let the user open the entire Lucy ML Output in a modal that has its own visualizations and Outputs Tab

ML Button in Scatter plot when enabled, adds a sliding circle on X-axis which can be dragged across the X domain and on drag end, Lucy ML Predict is called which adds a prediction point to the scatter plot in red.

Pivot Chart¶

Pivot Table chart now supports for multiple values which will add them as columns just how Excel does.

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Venn Diagram¶

New Visualization called Venn Diagram is added to Simlytiks.

Scatter Matrix¶

Scatter Matrix has new options added in Appearance tab called Fill Color and Fill Circle’s Opacity slider in Simlytiks

New options added in Scatter matrix to show Histograms and KDE in the diagonal cells. These options will be activated when show Correlations option (in appearance tab) is enabled.

Hovering on Legends in Scatter Matrix Visualization will highlight the corresponding points in every cell.

Scatter Matrix visualization has new option called ‘Y columns’ which can be used to Cross Plot X vs Y columns in Workflows.

Chord Diagram¶

Added new option called ‘Image by’ in the Appearance tab for Chord Visualization in Simlytiks

New option added in the Appearance tab called ‘Font Size of the labels’ for Chord visualization in Simlytiks.

Schema Summary¶

New visualization added called ‘Schema Summary’ which will show a simple table of all the column stats with a search bar at the top. It also has an option called Tabletype which has a selection of Detailed statistics which will render the detailed table with all the numerical stats for each column.

Schema summary has a new option called design which takes default, modern, modern2 as the values which uses different views.

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The visualization Schema Summary has new option called ‘Design’ in the appearance tab which has default, modern, modern2 views for the values of the visualization in Simlytiks.

Schema summary visualization has two new options: Font size (along with support for custom font size) and Fit to 100% height in Simlytiks.

Group Statistics¶

New Visualization called Group statistics in Simlytiks which renders the group based charts and show the characteristics. The charts such as Pivot table, Single box-plot for each dimension and color by group for continuous and stacked bar chart for categorial color by group, Single parallel chart showing all dimensions and color by group, Single bubble chart and Circle pack showing the groups.

In Group Statistics visualization we can add correlation values to the Parallel chart from the appearance tab.

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Group Statistics visualization has options to turn off/on the groups in Pivot table and the group names can also be edited by clicking on them

Group Statistics visualization has options to choose the X by and Y by for the bubble chart.

^{X by and Y by}

New option called Baseline in added to Group Statistics Visualization which is nothing but a reference row with which numerical columns are compared with and relative standard deviations are shown in the table

Group Statistics Visualization supports Curve columns. Sparklines are shown in the Pivot summary table when curve columns are selected.

Group Statistics Visualization header has a new Filter dropdown which will allow adding filters to the Group Stats chart.

Group Statistics Visualization has a new option in appearance tab called Sections which will allow the user to sort/remove/add the sections in the chart.

When Curve column is selected in Group Statistics visualization, we show Ymin and Ymax values in the Pivot table for the curves.

^{Curve Column}

Sparklines generated in the small curves shown in the Group Statistics visualization are now about 70% accurate representation of the original curves.

KDE Plot¶

New Visualization called KDE plot is added to Simlytiks.

KDE Plot has a new option called bandwidth which will change the smoothness of the curves in Simlytiks.

KDE Plot now has a new option Group By which will group the density plots based on the column in Simlytiks

3D Annotator¶

Added STEP and IGES file support for 3D annotator Peacock in Simlytiks.

Line Chart¶

New option added for Line Chart Visualization in Grouping tab called Cumulative which will cumulate the values.

3D Model Sync¶

Multi model Sync feature is now available in Simlytiks for 3D model Visualization. Features like Rotation , Zoom , Animation , Camera view,etc., are in Sync

Grouped Box Plot¶

Added new visualization called Grouped Box Plot to Simlytiks. This visualization acts similar to the Grouped Bar Chart.

Grouped box plot Visualization has new options in the Appearance tab and the charts can also be viewed side by side in Simlytiks.

New option available for Grouped box plot visualization in colors tab to color the Box plots.

^{Color by for Grouped box plot}

The Appearance tab in the Grouped Box plot visualization has new option to set a common min/max that is automatically calculated for each group.

^{Set common min and max}

Grouped box plot Visualization has new options in the Misc tab called ‘Export Individually’ which will export each column individually in an independent slide when exported to PPT in Simlytiks.

Grouped box plots in Simlytiks now have a Sort By column option in the Sorting tab which will group the unique values by that chosen column.

Grouped Histogram Visualization¶

New Visualization called Grouped Histogram Visualization.

Text Difference Checker Visualization¶

New visualization called Text Difference Checker is adWSded to Simlytiks.

Grouped Bar Chart Visualization¶

New Visualization called Grouped Bar Chart Visualization.

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Transitions/Animate To¶

In Simlytiks we have new option called ‘Animate To’ for the Visualizations. The purpose of the Animate To/Transitions is to show the same data in different visualizations. For example :- We can show or Animate Parallel chart to Bar chart , Parallel chart to Radar chart , parallel chart to Scatter plot etc.

Below videos shows few examples how to Animate visualizations to other charts.

Visualization Animations¶

Visualization Animations are now visible on the right side of any viz container in the form of a sticky button group aligned vertically middle in Simlytiks

^{Visualization Animation Option}

Parallel Chart Transitions¶

Visualization Transitions are available now from Parallel Chart to other charts.

Line Chart Transitions¶

Visualization Transitions are available now from Line Chart visualization to Area chart visualization.

Donut Chart Transitions¶

Visualization Transitions are available now from Donut Chart visualization to Pie chart visualization.

Bubble Chart Transitions¶

Visualization Transitions are available now from Bubble Chart visualization to other charts.

Vertical Bar Chart Transitions¶

Visualization Transitions are available now from Vertical bar Chart visualization to Scatter plot.

Added tooltips to the viz transitions button group on the right of any visualization container in Simlytiks.

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Legend font size¶

Appearance tab has a new option to change the legends font size in Scatter plot visualization.

Keyvalue Dataset¶

Keyvalue dataset visualizer has a new option in Appearance tab to fit the table to 100% width in Simlytiks.

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Keyvalue dataset visualization has new option in the appearance tab to wrap the row columns. This option enables the Data table and opens the rows in the dataset.

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New options ‘Borders and Zebra backgrounds’ are added to appearance tab in Keyvalue visualization.

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IIHS Chart¶

IIHS chart in Simlytiks has a new option ShapeBy which will add symbols to the curves and a new option to change radius of the shapes in the IIHS chart.

Simlytiks now supports editing of the attributes for the color by legends for IIHS charts.

IIHS chart in Simlytiks has a new option in appearance tab to enable the solid line for the baseline selected.

IIHS intrusion chart columns now supports axis options in Simlytiks

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Column Summary¶

New visualization in Simlytiks called Column Summary supports both numerical and categorical values and has different viewing and design options (modern, modern2 and default).

3D Bar Chart¶

New visualization called 3D bar chart is now added to Simlytiks which will create 3D bars in the chart.

3D bar chart now support xby column binning and yBy column binning in Simlytiks.

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X binning will be computed based on a bin increment percentage option available in xby column under 3D bar chart.

X ordinal ticks supports autofit based on the width of the chart which will avoid overlapping of ticks in Simlytiks.

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Initial support for negative bars to be shown below 0 when ZeroBasedScaling is turned on in 3D bar chart.

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3D Bar chart/3D Scatter plot have new options for xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, zmin, zmax, xstep, ystep, zstep, tick font sizes, tick counts, x precision (decimals), y precision (decimals) in Simlytiks

3D Bar/3D Scatter visualizations now support grid border lines which will add a black border to the axes bounding box in Simlytiks.

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3D Bar chart now supports binning for xBy and yBy with common options to provide increment in bins, showing only the min values, autofit, number of bins etc in Simlytiks.

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3D Bar chart now supports adding datum surfaces at certain values with support for color, opacity etc in Simlytiks.

Categorical columns are now supported in 3D Bar chart for yBy in Simlytiks.

When xBy or yBy are binned in 3D bar chart, the number of data points will now be one for each of the bins averaging the z value instead of rendering all data points based on original data.

New option in Appearance tab od 3D bar chart to render an edge/outline for the bars and an option to choose a custom color.

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In 3D bar chart, the numerical color scales used for coloring a visualization will now support a new option called colorMid which when specified will be a color between colorMin and colorMax.

Color fringe extent in 3D bar chart will now respect the custom min-max values while determining the color bar.

New option is available in 3D Bar chart to show the positive and negative values starting from 0 in Simlytiks

Z scale domain in 3D bar charts will now be based on the average value of the nested data when binning is available in either X or Y and this range will also be used for the color extent.

In 3D bar charts, option is added in zBy customization to show min or max value to be an absolute value.

Annotations for min/max of zBy in 3D bar charts now has new options to change the default font size and also allows resizing and dragging of the container which will be saved to the settings

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3D bar chart has a new option aggregation type in the Grouping tab to decide the rollup type to be used for nesting the bars.

3D Bar now supports a new aggregation type called Max Absolute which will render the bars with a height of max absolute of the zBy in each binned data.

3D Bar now supports a new option in Appearance tab to show the stats in the tooltips for the zBy in Simlytiks.

Datum surfaces in 3D Bar now support their names being added as texts and improved surface alignment with the grid.

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