Creating data-driven presentations with Canvas

Dashboards are a great way to visualize and consume data from Elasticsearch. Given their form factor, dashboards are interactive and can easily support analyst workflows in interrogating and pivoting data.

Dashboards, however, are not ideal when it comes to more granular control of how information is presented to a user. Canvas allows users to control the visual appearance of their data a lot more granularly, making it ideal for use in presenting key insights derived from data. Unlike normal presentations though, Canvas can be powered by live datasets on Elasticsearch in real time.

The following Canvas presentation presents some key insights from the trips dataset. A bunch of key stats, such as total trips, the number of countries, airlines, and total distance traveled, is rendered on the right side. The pie graph in the following Canvas presentation displays the proportion of business and economy class trips while the bubble chart...