Radarchart

Purpose & Application

The radarchart is the best chart to compare two groups or more on several dimensions at the same time.

It allows you to get an overview of each group scores/performances by comparing their areas, and then to focus on specific dimension of the radar.

📝 For example, evaluate the success of two adverts on the same market metrics (awareness, consideration, purchase).

Use this chart when you want to compare the performances of several entities, on different metrics. It allows you to :

• Compare the entities between themselves, overall and on a specific metric

• Compare the metrics, and see where the best/worst scores are obtained

Key features

What makes this chart a killer story?

• Units and precision give context about the values you are displaying: it is especially useful if you’re comparing metrics which are not straightly related.

• Display values to help decision makers focus on what’s important. We know sometimes radarcharts can be difficult to read because of the multiple dimensions that can be displayed.. It allows your users to quickly read and understand this viz!

• Order your viz to make relevant informations display first: do you want to look for the top movies profitability?

• Display chart as parallel plot if your users are really not used to reading multidimensional charts, it allows you to show metrics in the same direction and makes easy to compare the shapes of each entities you’re analyzing

• Fill series rather than outline to add some colors to your chart which can be a great way to highlight a specific entity or the average for example.

Configuration

*Mandatory parameters

Section	Option	Configuration tutorial
	Dataset*	Select the dataset used by the chart
	Label*	This will define the name of each of the bars you want to display. Select the column containing bar label
	Value*	Select the column containing the value
	Groups*	Your groups of choice
Legend	Display legend	Toggle to display legend
Sort	Labels order	Allows you to select labels order
Groups	Display all groups values	Allows you to display all groups values
Groups	Default selected group	Allows to display a selected group
Groups	Group(s) to fill rather than outline	Allows you to color the shape of one of your series
Groups	Groups additional info	Add a legend to your groups
Groups	Recycle groups colors	Reuse groups colors when chart data changes (filters changes for example)
Display	Use same scale for every axis	Toggle to use the same scale for every axis
Display	Overwrite default baseline	Type an integer to overwrite default baseline
Display	Display chart as parallel plot	Toggle to change the display of the axis
Display	Size	Define the chart size when having multiple ones
Display	Mobile size	Define the chart size when having multiple ones on mobile
Display	Custom css class	Set a custom CSS class to target this specific chart with CSS
Tutorial	ID	Enter an ID. Change the ID to display the tutorial again. All tutorials with the same ID will be displayed only once.
Tutorial	Message	Enter your message | This will be displayed to your users
Tutorial	Always display this tutorial	By default the tutorial is shown once only