Understanding Canvas, Maps, and Markdown visualizations

We have seen visualizations where we had a definitive purpose in mind with respect to what we’d like to do with the analysis. However, when we have intricately custom use cases such as adding our own images to highlight our company/customer information, we would need to create a Canvas visualization. A Canvas visualization is very similar to a literal white canvas that makes you, the artist, create/draw/add anything you like and make it interesting to present.

If you need to look at data points coming from different parts of the world, then we might need a map, which lets us create a visualization on a world map to display data in the form of different symbols. To add anything to the dashboard that is related to text, Markdown is a great visualization to start with. Let’s start looking at each one of them step by step.

Building Canvas visualizations

Canvas is a powerful tool for visualizing and presenting...