Is that a table?
Not all tables are meant to display numbers. Actually, with a little creativity and some advanced customization, you can create amazing visualizations that will enhance your applications and give a fresh look to your dashboards.
The waffle chart
For a strange reason, it looks like most area-based graphics have something to do with food. However, this time, we are not talking about pies or doughnuts, but waffle charts. These visualizations are based on a pivot table and rely on cell customization to display a percentage.
Example: Waffle chart.
Relevant features: ValueLoop(), RowNo(), and ColumnNo().
Unlike most visualizations, the construction of the waffle chart is a little unorthodox because it is based on two synthetic dimensions (that is, they don't exist in the data model) and a dummy expression. Our objective is to create a matrix with 100 cells that will be displayed in different colors depending on a metric. In order to create a waffle chart, do the following:
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