Smart graph display

[paolodamico]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Currently we default to line chart display for everything. There are quite a few cases where a different default would be more useful. As a user, I would like to ideally not have to think at all of which display to use.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like us to automatically suggest the best display depending on the type of data being graphed. Example: breakdown with few values would probably look best on a pie chart. This would make for one less thing to worry about when the user

Describe alternatives you've considered

Keep relying on manual changes.

Additional context

Related to feature parity too.

Thank you for your feature request – we love each and every one!

[marcushyett-ph]

+1

[clarkus]

I think this is going to need to be considered in the context of the insight analysis type being visualized. That said, I could see us addressing this problem a few ways:

• Disallow specific visualization types based on the shape of the underlying data.
• Suggest the most effective visualization types based on the query
• Automatically select the most effective visualization for the query that was defined.
• This might also serve as some great support documentation that we can cross-link in the product. "How to pick the best visualization for your data" or something?

Here is a super good article and reference sheet on how to select visualizations: https://medium.com/multiple-views-visualization-research-explained/multiple-views-on-how-to-choose-a-visualization-b3ffc99fcddc

[marcushyett-ph]

This is a super neat framework. Thanks for sharing @clarkus

I guess it also highlights that we have some pretty big gaps in visualization capabilities too.

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