The Data Explorer plugin lets you dive deep into your community’s data with custom queries. It’s now easier to visualize the results of those queries, thanks to a few recent updates that expand the plugin’s charting capabilities.
You’ll now see graphs on a wider range of query results, and we’ll automatically pick the right chart type based on the shape of the data.
Shapes and Charts
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Data Shape: 1 label + 1 numeric Chart Type: Bar Chart |
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Data Shape: 1 date + 1 numeric Chart Type: Line Chart |
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Data Shape: 1 label + 2+ numeric Chart Type: Multi-series bar chart (grouped, with legend) |
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Data Shape: 1 date + 2+ numeric Chart Type: Stacked bar chart (with totals in tooltip) |
You may also notice a little “Showing cached results from 5 minutes ago.” above your data. This allows you to share charts quickly to your teammate without having them to hit that 
Run . These results are cached for the day, and will always be displayed if you’re not viewing fresh results.
Stacked bar charts
For stacked bar charts, you can also toggle each numeric column like such 
Toggles - with persistence
Don’t like graphs? We gotchu - each query has per-device memory on whether to show or hide graphs or tables.
Give it a try, and let us know what you think!