In Tractorscope, chart types determine how query results are presented, from KPI, table, and map views to comparison, trend, and download-oriented visualizations.
Tractorscope supports multiple chart types and chart variants for different reporting and analytics needs. Some options are top-level chart types, while others are configured through chart settings, series settings, or table and map options.
Visualization charts
- Bar: Compare categories, groups, or time buckets.
- Stacked bar: Show how multiple series contribute to each category total.
- Grouped bar: Compare multiple series side by side within each category.
- Waterfall bar: Show positive and negative changes across steps or periods.
- Horizontal bar: Compare categories when labels are long or ranking matters.
- Vertical bar: Compare categories or time buckets with a standard column layout.
- Bar and line combo: Mix bar and line series in the same chart, such as revenue as bars with conversion rate as a line.
- Line: Show trends over time.
- Area line: Fill the area under a line to emphasize volume or cumulative totals.
- Cumulative line: Display running totals or cumulative trends.
- Pie: Show part-to-whole relationships for a small number of categories.
- Radar: Compare multiple measures across a shared set of dimensions.
- Number: Show a single KPI, total, rate, or status value.
- Gauge-style number: Show a KPI against a goal or maximum value.
- Map: Show location-based data with dots, markers, clusters, or heatmaps.
Bar chart variants
Bar charts are one of the most flexible chart types in Tractorscope. In bar chart settings, you can choose:
- Stacked: Series values stack into one bar per category.
- Grouped: Series values display as separate bars within each category.
- Waterfall: Bars show increases and decreases over a sequence.
- Vertical layout: Bars grow upward from the x-axis.
- Horizontal layout: Bars grow horizontally from the y-axis.
Bar charts can also include line series. Use this for mixed metric charts where one measure is best represented as bars and another is best represented as a line.
Line chart variants
Line charts support trend-focused options:
- Standard line: Show one or more time-series or ordered-series trends.
- Area fill: Fill the area under the line.
- Cumulative: Show a running total.
- Curved or linear lines: Adjust the curve style for readability.
- Point styling: Show, size, and style data points.
Table and data charts
- Table: Show detailed records, formatted values, links, and tabular results.
- Pivot table: Let viewers summarize query results by rows, columns, values, and filters.
- Transposed table: Flip table orientation when field names are more important than rows.
- Searchable table: Help viewers find rows in larger table results.
- Table with conditional formatting: Highlight values based on conditions.
- Table with data bars: Show relative magnitude inside table cells.
- Download: Provide downloadable query results.
- Gallery: Display repeated visual items from query results.
Map chart variants
Map charts can render location data in several ways:
- Dots: Simple point locations.
- Markers: Pin-style location markers.
- Clusters: Group dense point sets into interactive clusters.
- Heatmaps: Show concentration and density across a map.
Content charts
- Text: Add rich explanatory content directly to a dashboard.
- Image: Add uploaded images, logos, diagrams, or screenshots.
Alert charts
An alert runs a query and checks the result against a condition. Alerts can send notifications on an interval or schedule.
Choosing a chart type
Use number or gauge-style number charts for KPIs, line and area charts for trends, stacked bars for composition, grouped bars for side-by-side comparison, waterfall bars for changes over time, bar-line combo charts for mixed metrics, table and pivot charts for detailed analysis, map charts for geospatial data, and alert charts when the dashboard needs to notify someone automatically.