Visualizations in Analytics reports

October 20, 2020 14:27

Hootsuite Analytics provides numerous visualization options to display your metrics.

Visualization types

Use the following information to help you select the type of visualization best suited to display your data. Visualizations that aren't supported for a metric display in grey to indicate they cannot be selected.

Line

Use the Line visualization to display daily values for the selected time frame with a single line graphed on an x-y axis. This visualization allows you to compare series where multiple values intersect. Use Area visualizations (description follows) to view metrics with multiple values.

line chart

Tip: Select a point on the line to dig deeper into your data and view additional information for that point in time.

Area

Use the Area visualization to display daily values for the selected time frame using an area shaded in on an x-y axis. Area visualizations allow you to view metrics with multiple values by stacking values on top of each other. Use Line visualizations (described previously) to compare metrics with multiple values.

area chart

Tip: Select a point on the line to dig deeper into your data and view additional information for that point in time.

Column

Use the Column visualization to display daily values for the selected time frame with one vertical column representing each day.

column or bar chart

Geo map

Use the Geo map to display metrics that can be compared by country. Hover over a country to show the data specific to that country.

geo map visualization

Pie

Use the Pie visualization to display relative sizes of data for metrics with multiple values. Pies display four data values - the three largest and an ‘other’ category that combines all other data into a single group. To view the details of ‘other,’ select the List visualization (description follows).

pie chart

List

Use the List visualization to display metrics with multiple values in a list format. Scroll to view the entire list. If you have a metric with an 'other' category, you can use the List visualization to view that data.

list visualization

Number

Use the Number visualization to display each metric with an aggregated numeric value. Metrics with multiple values display four values - the three largest and an ‘other’ category that combines all other data into a single group. To view the details of ‘other,’ select the List visualization (described previously). Apply a date range comparison to show the difference between periods.

number visualization

Gauge

Use the Gauge visualization to display comparisons between two time periods. Hover over each line in the gauge to view the number represented. This visualization does not support metrics with multiple values.

When a date range comparison is applied, the Gauge can show the difference between periods as a number or as a percentage.

gauge visualization

Table

Use the Table to display a summary of posts with selected metrics published to a specific social profile. The Table visualization is exclusively for metrics with ‘Table’ in their name.

Select a column heading to sort the table rows by that column heading (this feature is not available for Ow.ly Traffic tables).

table visualization

Word map

Use the Word map for topic-related message metrics (like Inbound messages and Posted topics). The Word map displays the words and phrases that show up most often in messages with a conversation map.

Hootsuite automatically eliminates the most common words like "and," "the," and "if." The darker the color in the Word map, the higher the percentage of occurrence of that word.

When this visualization is selected for non topic-related metrics, the Word map acts like the Pie visualization.

word map