GUI Charts

Intro to Charts

In AMI, charts are the graphical representation of data from one or more datamodels. Prior to creating charts, please refer to the Data Modeler section of the GUI Tools page in order to get a better understanding on the use of the data modeler and the creation of datamodels before creating charts. If you would like to get a quick overview on the process of creating charts, please review the Creating a Relationship Between Visualizations section of the GUI Getting Started page.

1	Datamodel(s)	The data that is to be represented in the chart. The data can be from a data source or an object stored within AMI Center. A chart can have multiple datamodels
2	Plot	Area where the chart will be created
3	Axis	A set of data
4	Rendering layer	A 'slice' of the chart associated with a specific data model
5	Series	Reference lines tied to a series
6	Legend	A key to the series represented in the plot
7	User Control	Controls the transparency of all of the series in the chart

A basic chart

Chart Basics

Plots

One or more plots can be added to a chart, forming a grid of plots. Each plot can contain any number of layers, stacked from front to back such that the front layer will obscure data from layers behind it, depending on the transparency of each layer. Once a chart has been created, additional plots can always be added to existing plots. There are two ways to add (or remove) plots.

1. Click on the chart configuration button (green button) and select one of the options under Plot > Add (the options are above, below, to the left, or to the right)

2. Click on the plot configuration button (located on the upper right corner of the plot) and select one of the options under Add

Axes will be added automatically to the new plots.

Examples

Adding a plot above will automatically add an axis to the left of the new plot (the two plots will share the same bottom axis)

Adding a plot to the right will automatically add an axis to the bottom of the new plot (the two plots will share the same left axis)

Additional points

• The size of each plot can be modified by adjusting the lines dividing the plots.

• When removing plots of 2x2 or larger, the options to remove plots will either be removing a row or plots or column of plots.

Axes

Any number of horizontal axes can be added to the top or bottom of a column of plots and any number of vertical axes can be added to the left or right of a row of plots. There are two ways to add additional axes to a chart.

1. As seen in the addition of plots, use the plot configuration button menu and select one of the options under Add (add to the left, right, above, or below).

2. Add axes directly to existing axes using the axis configuration button.

Examples - adding an axis above using the plot configuration button vs. adding an axis above an existing axis

Adding an axis above using the plot configuration button will add an axis above the plot

Adding an axis above using the axis configuration button (blue circle) added an axis directly above it (orange highlight)

Additional points

• When there are multiple plots used in a chart, new axes are added to the outside edges of the chart. For example, choosing to add an axis above on any of the plots in a column will add an axis to the very top of the chart. Choosing to add an axis to the right of any of the plots in a row will add an axis to the right edge of the chart.

Editing the Axis

In order to add or modify a title of an axis, click on the axis configuration button and select Edit Highlighted Axis. In the Edit Axis window, you will be able to add a title using the Title field.

In this same Edit Axis window, you may also modify the format type of the axis. By default, the Auto setting is used when charts are made. However, you may select another format from the drop down (e.g., Numeric). Selecting a different format will enable the editing of the other fields in the window.

Layers

In order to render (display) the data model in the chart, a rendering layer must be added to the plot. Rendering layers (layers for short) allow the display of multiple charts on a single plot using the same or multiple data sets:

• If the data sets are to use the same axes, use a single layer with multiple series

• If the data sets are to use different axes, use multiple layers

• If two or more data models are used, you must use multiple layers

Adding a new layer manually

When you use the visualization wizard to create a new chart on a blank panel, layers will be automatically added. However, if you are working on a blank chart or you would like to add more layers to an existing chart, use the Edit Plot option found in the plot configuration menu. This will bring up the Edit Rendering Layer window.

In the Edit Rendering Layer window, click on the Add 2D button to add a a new 2D chart layer.

• The Layer tab is divided with the Style Options on the left and the Chart Options on the right.
• In addition to the style options, the upper left contains the options to choose a datamodel for the layer and the ability to choose a horizontal/vertical axis (when working with multiple axes).
• Clicking on the datamodel button will open up the data modeler. When adding layers manually, it is better to have the datamodels prepared in advance.
• In the Chart Options side on the right, you have the different chart option tiles. These are the same tiles you will find in the visualization wizard when building charts. Switching between the tiles changes the relevant fields below (e.g., switching between the Scatter and Line tiles, you will notice that a Line Size(px) field is required.
• Use the Advanced tile in order to have the most control over the chart you would like to create. This tile will make all of the 2D chart fields available.
• After filling in the required fields, click Apply to create the layer

View Underlying Data and View Prepared Data

The View Underlying Data and View Prepared Data buttons found under the chart tiles can be used to quickly view the data that is to be used. The view underlying data will show the raw data from the datamodel, whereas the view prepared data will show the data after the fields are taken into account.

For example, I will make the Marker Size depend on the formula of (High > 11 ? 3 : 1). In the prepared data window, you can see that the marker sizes are 1 whenever the value of High (the Y axis) is less than 11.

Styles

Colors

In 2D/3D chart, after you have selected a visualization type, in the dropdown menu for Colors, you will encounter the following options:

No Color: self-explanatory.

Color: choose any color, by sampling or inputting the hex code in the color picker helper.

Formula: input a function that returns a color. ex: Population > 4000000? "#955e42":"#5603ad"

Series: input a function that returns a number. AMI will index it through the default collection of color and determine the color. The default color collection can be changed under Dashboard -> Style Manager -> Root -> Panel -> Chart -> Partition Colors, the list must contain valid hex codes and is comma delimited. ex: SurfaceArea+100

Gradient: input a variable that is numeric and AMI will vary the color intensity of the markers depending on the value with the default color spectrum. The color spectrum can be changed in Style Manager under Dashboard -> Style Manager -> Root -> Panel -> Chart -> Gradient Colors. ex: Population

Custom Series: same as Series except user must input a comma delimited list of hex codes in the second field, and input a function that returns a number in the third field. User may hardcode the number and that would mean only one color will be picked. ex: Field 2:#d78521,#ffa65c,#871303,#fff98a,#c40505,#80e8a6,#8e0073,#7df8ff,#068947,#c49fff Field 3:SurfaceArea

Custom Gradient: user-define color spectrum, otherwise same as Gradient.

3D Charts on AMI

This document explains the usage of each field in a 3D chart. The fields are categorized into 3 sections: formulas, axis, styles. The order of the explanation in this document is based on the diagram below.

Below is all styles:

Formulas

1. View Underlying data

Shows the data where the visualization is going to be based on. Example view below.

2. View Prepared data

Shows the underlying data as well as properties of the marker. Properties include:

• Marker Shape
• Marker Color
• Marker Width
• Marker Height
• Marker Depth
• Axis (coordinates) X/Y/Z

Example view below.

3. Data model

Shows the name of the datamodel of which the visualization is based on.

4. Type

Indicates whether the graph is a surface plot or a scatter plot.

Options

5. Where

Filters the data based on user-defined, semicolon delimited conditions. The graph would only show points which satisfies the boolean argument (e.g. suppose x-axis is “Quantity”. Inputting Quantity > 0 would cause the graph to only show points where Quantity > 0).

6. Group By

Affects the grouping in “View Prepared Data”.

7. Order By

Affects the ordering in “View Prepared Data”.

Axis

X/Y/Z Axis: required. Indicates what the coordinate values come from. Each axis takes a column’s name as input. Column data must be numeric.

Formulas

Labels

8. User Selectable

9. Description

Indicates what to annotate next to each data point on the chart.

10. Hover over

Indicates what to show when hovering over a data point.

Markers

11. Shape

Indicates the shape of each data point on the chart.

12. Color

Determines the color of each data point.

13. Width/Height/Depth (px)

Determines the size of the data points, in pixel, on the chart.

Marker Position Override

14. Top/Bottom/Left/Right/Front/Back

Forces each marker stretch to the specific value, relative to the range of X/Y/Z. Ex: if one of your markers has position (1x,2y,3z) and your graph has minimum Y value of -5 and maximum y value of 5, and you set Top as 5, then that marker will now stretch to (1x,5y,3z). The previous marker position is not erased so a line is formed, spanning from 2y to 5y. Setting a value outside of the current range will cause the marker line to go outside of the chart. Setting a negative value for Top is equivalent to setting a positive value for Bottom, vice versa. The same rule applies to Left/Right, Front/Back.

Lines

15. Line Color

Indicates the line color.

16. Line Size (px)

Indicates the line size, in pixel, connecting the data points.

Styles

1. Inherit From

Can be changed in Style Manager under Dashboard. This applies the selected styles from the Style Manager.

General

2. Background Color

Applies to the background of the visualization.

3. Selection Color

Affects the color you see when you select a data point on the chart.

4. Label Color

Affects the color of the labels on the bottom of the visualization. In the screenshot below I have changed the color of the labels to red.

5. Control Buttons Color

Affects the color of the buttons on the bottom left of the visualization as seen below.

Scroll Bar Colors

The colors here all refer to the scroll bars on the bottom of visualization, labeled “X”, “Y”, “Z”, “Zoom”, “FOV” and such.

Scroll Bar Options

The options here all refer to the single scroll bar at the bottom of the visualization.

Visualization Title

The options here control the title of the visualization. By default there is no title displayed on the chart. Below is an example usage

Visualization Padding

The options here control the padding of the visualization as a whole, the padding will cover the chart if set as a high value. Example usage below:

Visualization Border

The bigger the size, the less space there is for the visualization, the bigger the borders. Color controls the border color. Example usage below

3D Charts PDF

File:3D Charts on AMI.pdf

Examples

Candlestick Chart

A candlestick chart can be built using AMI through the following steps.

1. Create an empty 2D chart visualization on top of your datamodel, in this example, we are using the following Sample datamodel:

2. Using the advanced option, we will create the candle layer first with the following parameters:

1	AXIS X	date
2	MARKERS Shape	“square”
3	MARKERS Color - Formula	(close > open ) ? “#00FF00” : “#FF0000” (Optional - to differentiate bars)
4	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Top	open
5	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Bottom	close
6	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Left	date - 35000000
7	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Right	date + 35000000

3. Add a new layer on top of the chart (stick layer):

4. Using the advanced option as well, create the stick layer with the following parameters:

1	AXIS X	date
2	MARKERS Shape	“square”
3	MARKERS Color - Color	#000000
4	MARKERS - Width	1
5	MARKERS - Height	1
6	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Top	high
7	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Bottom	low

OHLC Chart

OHLC (open-high-low-close) chart consists of:

• a vertical line that represents the intraday range for the period
• a horizontal line extending to the left that represents the opening price for the period
• a horizontal line extending to the right that represents the closing price for the period

It can be built using AMI through the following steps:

1. Create an empty 2D chart visualization on top of your datamodel, in this example, we are using the following Sample datamodel:

2. Using the advanced chart option, we will create the intraday range (vertical line) layer first with the following parameters:

1	AXIS X	date (or use the parseDate() formula if the date field is a string )
2	MARKERS Shape	“square”
3	MARKERS Color - Formula	(close > open ) ?"#ff0000":"#32cd32"
4	MARKERS - Width	1
5	MARKERS - Height	1
6	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Top	high
7	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Bottom	low

3. Click on 'Add 2D' and add a new layer on top of the chart. (Opening Price - Horizontal Left Line layer)

4. Using the advanced option as well, create the Opening Price layer with the following parameters:

1	AXIS X	date (or use the parseDate() formula if the date field is a string )
2	MARKERS Shape	“square”
3	MARKERS Color - Formula	(close > open ) ?"#ff0000":"#32cd32"
4	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Top	open
5	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Bottom	open + 0.01
6	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Left	date - 35000000
7	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Right	date + 100000

4. Click on 'Add 2D' and add the 3rd layer (Closing Price - Horizontal Right Line layer). Using the advanced option as well, create the Closing Price layer with the following parameters:

1	AXIS X	date (or use the parseDate() formula if the date field is a string )
2	MARKERS Shape	“square”
3	MARKERS Color - Formula	(close > open ) ?"#ff0000":"#32cd32"
4	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Top	close
5	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Bottom	close + 0.01
6	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Left	date - 100000
7	MARKER POSITION OVERRIDE Right	date + 35000000

5. Click on 'Apply' and 'OK' and you have successfully created an OHLC chart.

Realtime Chart

If we subscribe our datamodeller with its own feed, we would make it a realtime datamodeller which we can be used to create a realtime chart.

1. Suppose we have a real time table(feed) called "testTime", right click on the feed -> Add Datamodel


2. Now that the datamodeller subscribes to its own feed, we could configure the datamodeller based on the realtime feed. In this example, we want to get every other id value


3. Right click on the Datamodeller icon -> Add Table/Visualization Form -> Select a table in your chosen datamodeller


4. Choose any chart type of your interest. Here we choose a bar chart.

5. Edit the plot configuration -> submit. We have a realtime bar chart ready to go.


The above chart is redrawn on every update in the feed that the realtime datamodel is based on. Alternatively, if rerunning the datamodel on every update is very expensive, it is possible to have the datamodel conflate its runs. This will make it so that it runs only once in the specified time period. This can be controlled by the Conflate Run (sec) field in the Edit Datamodel window.

Hollow Pie Chart

Assume we want to create a hollow pie chart out of our sample table Sample(Symbol String, Quantity Int).
1. Select our datamodel -> 2D Chart -> Pie Chart:
2. Uncheck Auto Min Value and Auto Max Value


3. go to Advanced -> Marker Position Override -> set your inner/outer radius


4. Final Hollow Pie Chart:

Moving Average Chart

In this example, we are using some sample stock data to demonstrate the moving average chart.
In the table SampleData we have 20 days of stock data and we are going to create a seven-day moving average out of `Open`.
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