Formatting a Heat Map visualization

You can format a Heat Map visualization, to determine whether you can delete rectangles from the visualization, select the algorithm used to size and position rectangles in the visualization, and so on.

Prerequisites

To format a Heat Map visualization

  1. Click the name of an analysis to run it, then click the tab of the Heat Map visualization.

  2. Click the Properties icon Properties icon. The Properties panel is displayed.

  3. You can enable deleting rectangles from the visualization. If this option is enabled, you will be able to delete rectangles from the visualization by hovering over a rectangle and clicking the x icon. Do one of the following:

  4. You can enable zooming in and out of rectangles in the visualization by clicking them. Do one of the following:

  5. You can choose whether to display the metric values for each rectangle in the visualization. For example, you add Region, Profit, and Revenue to the widget. The widget displays rectangles for each customer region. You can select the Show metric values check box to display the profit and revenue data for the Mid-Atlantic region in the Mid-Atlantic rectangle, the profit and revenue data for the Northeast region in the Northeast rectangle, and so on. Do one of the following:

  6. You can choose whether to label each rectangle with the name of the attribute element it represents. From the Show Labels drop-down list, select one of the following options:

  7. Select one of the following options under Layout:

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