Building effective visuals

QuickSight visuals are interactive and support customization, sorting, and filters. In this section, we will see the different options and recommendations. The following are the options under QuickSight:

• Bar chart

• Line chart

• Pivot table

• Scatter plot

• Tree map

• Pie chart

• Heat map

• Autograph

Changing visual type

To change the current visual of a chart, follow the steps as follows:

1. Select the analysis you wish to change.

2. Next, expand the Visual types section and you will see all available options as shown in the following screenshot:

   

   Figure 4.14: Visual types

3. Now you can select the chart you want to change to.

4. Alternatively, you can select the autograph option, which is represented by the lightning sign. QuickSight will use the most appropriate visual type based on the dataset.

Bar charts

QuickSight supports a wide range of bar charts for single-measure, multi-measure, stacked, or stacked 100% in horizontal or vertical orientation. In the next few sections we will discuss how to best...