Experience The New Chart Engine : Now More Refreshing and Vibrant

Experience The New Chart Engine : Now More Refreshing and Vibrant

In our effort to deliver the best spreadsheet experience to you, we bring out to you our next update. Our chart engine has been updated completely to let you chart, interact and analyze  from your data.

 

Data visualization is a crucial part of spreadsheets. Visualization helps you acquire intuitions and frame right conclusions. Our latest update will help you do exactly that. So, what do we have in store for you?

 

Interactivity and  Vibrancy:

First of all, you can now interact better with the charts that you create from your data. The entire User Experience associated with a chart has been modified. Some of the recent updates let you perform the following tasks quite easily.

  • You can now preview your charts according to your settings before you start working with them.
  • You can zoom in and zoom out of the chart to get a better estimate of how data varies over a range. 
  • You can now perform Undo and Redo operations over chart.
  • You can now publish and embed them on webpages or websites as interactive elements to help you understand your data better.
  • You can use legends to highlight the  datafield that you are trying analyze. Clicking the corresponding legend will help you to filter the chart according to your choice. Click it once to remove the effects of a particular datafield on the chart and click it again to bring it back.
  • You can also add new rows and columns into the region of data once the chart has been created. The chart will modify to suit the new values accordingly.  
  • You can hover your cursor over the legend of the chart to identify and highlight the relevant portions of the chart, helping in better analysis.

Interacting with your data will definitely help you analyze and conclude from your data better.



More Chart Types:

The number of types of a chart has been increased. You can now create better types of charts that will help you in better visualizations. You can now create two dimensional as well three dimensional charts to depict data. Some new chart types that have been added to the ones that exist already are:

  • Doughnut:  This chart type lets you display data in the shape of a doughnut. This type of chart is much suited for displaying percentages or fraction based data and would help you analyze proportions.

  • Spline Chart:  Spline Charts are extensions of Line Charts. Spline Charts connect different data points using splines. They help you analyze the relationship between two different qualities.

  • Time Series:  This chart lets you plot the relationship between any varying quantity and time. Whenever you wish to study how a quantity has varied over time, this type of chart is your best bet.

  • Combination Chart:  Combination charts are another type of charts that will help you visualize two fields of data together by allowing you to plot multiple Y axes. 
  • Waterfall Chart:  Waterfall charts come in handy when aggregate data needs to be computed and charted over a course of variables.

You can choose to turn on and turn off various  datafields and observe the corresponding effects in the chart. Another added benefit of interacting with charts is that you will also be view the corresponding data points on the chart as you click the relevant portion.





Chart Styling:

The recent update also focuses on ensuring that charts can be created in an intricately detailed manner. It is now possible to add Chart Sub Title, Tooltips, Slant, Stagger and Gridlines to help you in better analysis. You can choose to scale up and down the chart as you please to choose the right kind of scaling that will fit your data perfectly.



New Chart Menu Tab:

Best of all, when you create a new chart, a new menu tab is created when you click on the chart to make sure that you can edit and modify the chart as and when you please.



Try out our Interactive Chart:

We have also embedded an interactive chart for you to work with. Check it out and enjoy the feel provided by the new chart engine. You can click on the legend of the chart to filter out the effects of that particular datafield. The filtered out elements can be brought back by clicking on the legend again.              


                   

So these updates of us are intended to improve your charting and overall spreadsheet experience. We hope the new chart update will help you in visualizing and interacting with data better.  Write to us at support@zohosheet.com to let us know what you think of our latest update.