Chart Types

Diamond Reports 2 supports eleven different chart types

Area

Area charts are similar to line charts. You can display the growth and decline of a certain value over time. Data can be shown in their respective sub-categories (shown as different colors in chart).

Area Chart

Line

Line charts are used to show changes over time.

Line Chart

Best Practices for Line Charts

• Avoid using too many categories in one chart

• You can add a threshold line to improve your charts readability

Combined

Combine multiple chart types to better visualize your data. In the example below, we added a virtual measure to display a threshold (blue line) onto the chart.

Combined Chart with Virtual Measure for threshold

You can enable equal scaling to adjust the chart in the Chart settings.

Column

One of the most used chart types. With column charts you can compare different categories or compare value changes over a period of time. You can stack column charts to show a composition.

Best Practices for Column Charts

• Avoid using too many categories in one chart

Comparison

Use the comparison chart to display yearly differences on a weekly basis like the in the picture below.

Comparison Chart

Comparison Options

Use the comparison options to choose a comparison interval:

Choose comparison type

Only values

Grey column shows past data. Orange shows current data. Numbers inside brackets shows difference between current and previous period.

Values with absolut comparison

Only absolute comparison

Only relative comparison

Histogram

Histogram charts can be used to present a distribution of one variable over a set of categories. For example the amount of people in a area over a specific amount of time.

Best Practices for Histogram Charts

• Histograms are well designed for evaluating waiting times.

Occupancy

Bar

Barcharts are column charts with reverse axis. The bar type can be specified in the configuration window. You can pick either regular column, comparison with previous year and relative comparison.

Regular Column Bar Chart

Comparison with previous Year

Relative Comparison

Pie

Pie charts display the distribution of specified categories for a given variable

Best Practices for Pie Charts

• Avoid using too many categories in one chart

Candlestick

BubbleMap

Use the BubbleMap to display location on a map. OpenStreetMap is the default Tile Service being used. In order for the Map to display the locations, make sure you have assigned a valid location in the location tree.