Chart types that you'd like to see in Lightdash

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

Charts are a pretty important part of Lightdash, and we know we're missing a few chart types in the app.

We'd love to hear it from you:

what chart type would you like to see added to Lightdash? 📈

(Be sure to check the comments below and upvote if someone has already added your chart type!)

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

"Big Number" type visualization

(already a ticket for this here)

[tomcent-tom]

Similarly, a gauge chart would be nice to have.
Not crucial. Just nice to have.

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

oooh! I've never actually used a gauge chart before - love it.

It's like being in Formula 1, but actually you're in an exec meeting talking about ARR, CTR, WAUs and any other fun acronyms you can think of 🙂

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

V1 of this is complete! #1264

[risafangs]

I love this type of chart with a % change from previous period. I also wish I could choose which column you take the number from - it seems like table calculations don't work even if I move them to come first.

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

@risafangs totally. We have an open issue for that, actually: #1520

We're working on some chart configurations in the next two weeks, so I'll make sure to add it to the backlog :)

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

Table
(already a ticket for this here)

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

V1 of this is complete! #430

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

Pie chart

[clausherther]

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

Map

[olly-writes-code]

Would love this! Consider deck.gl for performant maps when rendering lots of data

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

oooh @olly-writes-code and it's open source 👀 love it! We use eCharts as our charting library..I wonder if deck.gl plays nicely with it 🤞 (from our experience, e-charts can be a bit of a bully to integrations 😅 so I'll let the engineering team take a better look at it).

Linked in the open issue here! #3015

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

Stacked bar charts (both % stacked + raw value stacked)

(already a ticket for this here)

[djayatillake]

Waterfall 😈

[djayatillake]

It's really useful but annoying to implement unless your graphing library supports it really well.

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

oh boy....can't wait to try this one out

[clausherther]

Combination two-axis charts, e.g vertical bar (axis 1) + line (axis 2)

[owlas]

Great suggestion @clausherther ! This is essential

[pinkbaka]

bump

[tanguy-nsd]

+1

[clausherther]

Vertical Horizontal bar chart

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

This already exists (unless I'm misunderstanding something here 🤔 )

Is it something different to this?

[clausherther]

Hi @TuringLovesDeathMetal ! I think I had the wrong term for this, turns out it's called a Horizontal Bar chart (I guess the x-axis is what makes this horizontal, not the bars) ;)

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

it's your lucky day - this one exists too! I hope it feels like we're making all your bar chart dreams come true 🪄 🤗

[clausherther]

I'm so impressed! :)

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

That's what we like to hear!

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

Histogram

[TuringLovesDeathMetal]

Funnel

[owlas]

Gauge chart

From @tomcent-tom

[owlas]

Ideally you should be able to set a target / threshold for gauges. The most common use case in my experience is to use the gauge to show %completion or how close to reaching a target a given metric is

[bondgeek]

Heatmap

[LucilleNBrown18]

Map sounds nice!

[matsstijlaart]

Boxplot!

[ceik]

Bullet Charts:

[ceik]

Essentially gauge charts for people who prefer bars over pies

[Daniel-SalazarSoplapuco]

Different X/Y Axis scales.
Logarithmic and Power would be extremely beneficial.

[Sechmail]

deck.gl geospatial charts
Any map that supports GeoJSON really

[therealchrisrock]

The Funnel Chart

[Daniel-SalazarSoplapuco]

Yes I would like to add to this, this is really missing to be able to onboard the marketing department better into lightdash.