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04 Explore Sunburst and Stacked Area Chart

<p><strong>Explore Sunburst and Stacked Area Chart</strong></p><p>This workflow demonstrates the usage of the <strong>Sunburst Chart</strong>, which is used to visualize data when the data has some level of hierarchy. Here, the <strong>Sunburst Chart</strong> displays the sales of a company across different products and markets. Additionally, a <strong>Stacked Area Chart</strong> is used to display the composition of sales across products over time.</p><p>If you want to give your acquired knowledge a test run, take a look at the Just KNIME It challenges. (Just KNIME It Link provided in External resources section of this workflow)</p>

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Visualize sales across products and markets

Step 1: Connect the input data (which has some level of hierarchy) to the input port of the Sunburst Chart.

Step 2: On the dialog box select the category columns that denote hierarchy. In this case it is "Product" and "Market". In the "Value Column", select "Sales_(in Thousands)".

Step 3: Now right click on the node and select on "Apply and Execute".

Visualize overall sales as composition of product sales

Step 1:Connect the Input Data to Data Input Port of the "Stacked Area Chart".

Step 2: Double click on the node to open dialog box. Select the "Date" column for the option "Choose column for x-axis". In the Column selection panel, select the columns "Product A" and "Product B".

Step 3: Now right-click on the node and select on "Apply and Execute".

Explore Sunburst and Stacked Area Chart


This workflow demonstrates the usage of the Sunburst Chart, which is used to visualize data when the data has some level of hierarchy. Here, the Sunburst Chart displays the sales of a company across different products and markets. Additionally, a Stacked Area Chart is used to display the composition of sales across products over time.

Workflow complete!

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Calculate sum of "Sales" across products and months
Pivot
Group by "Product" & "Market";Calculate sum of "Sales"
GroupBy
Sales data for differentproducts and markets
Table Creator
Compare overall salesby products over time
Stacked Area Chart
Convert "Sales"to thousands
Expression
Convert "Date" to date type
String to Date&Time
Compare sales acrossproducts and makets
Sunburst Chart

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