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Drilling through to another dashboard in your application
In this article, we'd like to show how you could quite easily set up drillthrough when embedding Luzmo dashboards, to further extend the interactivity of your meaningful insights. This could...
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Supporting different development environments
This guide outlines the complete release flow for Luzmo dashboards — from initial development to production — using groups, collections, and environment-specific API tokens to manage access to dashboards and...
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What is possible with dashboards integrated with embed tokens?
Now that you have successfully integrated a Luzmo dashboard in your application using embed tokens, it is time to make sure all dashboards match your application and even add some...
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Creating and sharing your first dashboard(s)
Once your internal dashboard designers have at least "can use" access to the dataset, they can start dragging and dropping meaningful insights together in our dashboard editor and query them....
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Custom dashboard versioning
Once your dashboard is embedded, you will likely want to iteratively improve the designs of your dashboards. You can use our version history and publishing feature to control which version...
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Custom Charts
What are Custom Charts? Custom Charts enable you to develop your own specialized data visualizations and connect them to Luzmo, allowing you and your users to easily add them to...
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Embedded Dashboard Editor - a summary of the prerequisites
You're in luck: we created a TL;DR summary to embed the dashboard editor 🎉 The items listed below are the absolute basics: ensuring you got these covered will give you...
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Using CSS to create pixel perfect dashboards
CSS is a powerful tool for customizing the appearance of your dashboards and widgets. In this article, we'll explore some common uses for CSS and provide examples of the code...
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Custom events
Custom events allow interaction between your dashboards and your own application. By surfacing chart information from a dashboard into your application, you can create flexible and powerful workflows that drive...
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Dynamically creating your dashboard navigation based on accessible dashboards
With our initial embedding complete, now you can make sure all dashboards accessible by the user are shown in your application in the right place! Each frontend component has a...
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Dashboard 'Ready-for-production' Checklist
If you're ready to launch your dashboard into production, it might be useful to go through this checklist first to ensure that the dashboard is good to go! First we'll...
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Export a dashboard or widget
When you're sharing dashboards with clients, colleagues or stakeholders, you might want to send them an export of the dashboard instead of sharing a link. This is perfectly possible within...
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Introducing embedded dashboards and the Embedded Dashboard Editor
Embed dashboards If you've built meaningful dashboards and are ready to visualize them in your own application, now is the time! In this course we'll cover the different steps needed...
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Embedded Dashboard Editor - the different editModes
After setting up the basic frontend embedding code, you can ensure dashboards can be opened in a specific edit mode. This is where the editMode property comes into play!...
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Making Dashboards with Templates
Creating dashboards has never been this simple! We understand that crafting the perfect dashboard can often be a daunting task, especially if you're new to the world of data visualization....
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Filters
There are multiple ways to filter data in Luzmo, starting from the dashboard level and going down to the chart or authorization request level. In this article, we will cover:...
Linking datasets
Linking datasets creates a logical connection between them, allowing charts to visualize and be filtered by data spread across multiple datasets. In this article, we will cover: How to link...
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Enabling or disabling features via Feature flags
For each embed user you can, at any point in time, enable or disable several features related to dashboards, datasets, and editing dashboards in the Embedded Dashboard Editor. All these...
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Embedding: 'Ready-for-production' Checklist
Now that you've successfully embedded a production-ready Luzmo dashboard, it's time to ensure that your embedding setup adheres to our best practices! First we'll give some tips on the setup...
Request an embed token in your backend
To securely access an embedded Luzmo dashboard and/or the dashboard editor in your platform, you will first need to retrieve an embed authorization token granting temporary access to specific collections,...
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Setting the language for dashboards, datasets and the app
When you started dashboarding, you may have noticed that our application and charts are set to English by default. For example, the dates are written in English, you see a...
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Loading a dashboard in the same filter state as a user left it
All the Luzmo dashboards are interactive. A user can filter not only via the filter items on the dashboard but also using the charts. If you would like to re-apply...
How to make the embedded dashboard editor a success in your application
Having successfully set up the embedded dashboard editor, it is time to get the ball rolling with your users! Before exposing an embedded dashboard editor to your users, we would...
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How to Retrieve a Thumbnail Image of a Dashboard
As a dashboard designer or administrator, you may want to retrieve a thumbnail image from your dashboard to display it on your website, email, or any other medium. A thumbnail...
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Managing the access granularity of your dashboards and datasets
In this article we will first take a deep dive into how Collections, Suborganizations and embed users all come together to control access to your dashboards and datasets. What are...
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Retrieving a List of All Dashboards Using a Specific Dataset and Vice Versa with the API
The Luzmo API enables developers to programmatically interact with Luzmo. Anything that can be done in the dashboard editor can be done via the API and much much more! Retrieving...
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Roles and rights per user type
There are a few different roles and rights available in Luzmo. So let’s give you an overview of how can you manage your organization members and their access level! This...
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Applying external filter components to an embedded Luzmo dashboard
When embedding a Luzmo dashboard in your application, your application might have additional filter capabilities which should apply to an embedded dashboard. This article outlines...
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Embedded Dashboard Editor - variants and favoriting
The embedded dashboard editor provides your end users with the ability to directly play around with the data and dashboards. This is really powerful and brings data insights to the...
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4.1 Introduction to the dashboard editor
In this section we will create dashboards from the start. In this first lesson we will overview the complete process. The following lessons will go into more detail for each...
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Dynamically locking dashboard styling for all (user-generated) dashboards
Embedded dashboards should seamlessly fit within your application, and so it is important to ensure that the dashboard created by embed users will share a uniform theme! Below, we briefly...
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3.3 Sharing your dashboards
You can easily share your dashboards by clicking the ‘Share’ icon in the overview page, on the dashboard details page or via the dashboard editor. There are three main sharing...
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3.1 The dashboards overview page
In the dashboard overview page you can find all of your dashboards. Note that you can use the search bar, you can also modify the view to see the dashboards...
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Putting your dashboards on a monitor: connect Luzmo to Yodeck
You want to show your dashboards on a monitor? That is really easy to do with Yodeck. Let me show you how! Requirements A Yodeck-compatible device: see Yodeck's documentation about...
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Setting up the font for your dashboards
Customizing your dashboard's theme, including fonts, is essential in integrating your Luzmo dashboard into your platform. This guide will walk you through how to do just that. Use our built-in...
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Further elevate your Luzmo setup
Now that you have a scalable setup to build upon and further extend, we'd like to share with some links to other interesting resources that could assist you in further...
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Preparing your data for analytics: an example
A common pain point for anyone who needs a layer of analytics and visualizations for the data they’ve accumulated, is often getting that data ready to be used. In this...
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4.6 Dashboard styling with themes
Styling options for the dashboard can be found underneath the ‘Theme’ section of the ‘Settings’ tab. You can choose one of the predefined themes, like a dark theme, or create...
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3.4 Organizing dashboards and datasets with collections
Organization is key to productivity, and after connecting datasets and creating dashboards in your Luzmo account, collections will help you keep everything organized and make it easier to share your...
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How to remove branding from Luzmo dashboards?
When embedding Luzmo dashboards into your own application, you’ll want your clients to have a seamless brand experience. As such, you might want to remove any Luzmo branding from the...
3.2 The details page of your dashboard
You can open the dashboard details by clicking the three dots menu and selecting ‘more info’ in the dashboards overview page. On top of the page, you are able to...
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Creating an Admin API user with access to all dashboards and datasets in your organization
To ensure your securables are accessible to the right people, you can create an Admin user that can access and share all securables that exist in...
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Timezone
Luzmo supports timezones in a flexible and powerful way. Four elements come to play: The data type in Luzmo: The data type set on the column in Luzmo, i.e. date...
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Embed dashboards and/or the dashboard editor in your frontend
Having successfully requested an embed key and token in your backend, you can use them in your frontend to grant your users access to view and/or edit embedded dashboards within...
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Dynamically adding CSS for dashboards integrated with embed tokens
You can specify custom CSS when requesting an embed authorization token for your end user, which will make sure that all dashboards integrated using this authorization token will add the...
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Introduction to "Dashboard Design: Style and Best Practices"
In a world where data is central to decision-making, a well-crafted dashboard is key to making sense of complex information. This course is here to guide you in mastering the...
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Authentication
Understanding the different authentication types Besides the secret that was mentioned in the previous article, a plugin has to authenticate the user that is trying to retrieve data from it....
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AI powered chart generation
Unlock the power of AI in your dashboarding with Luzmo's AI powered chart creation. This feature empowers users to generate insightful charts from simple text prompts or browse suggested charts,...
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Adding the recommended user (personas) to your organization
Each of your colleagues likely carry specific responsibilities when it comes to managing data, or designing / viewing dashboards. In this article, we'd like to kick off by providing you...
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Sharing via public link
After creating a dashboard, you have multiple ways to share it with your colleague’s or partners. One of the options is to share via a public link. Let me show...
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Setting a Refresh Rate on Your Dashboard for Real-Time Data Updates
Keeping your dashboard up-to-date with real-time data is essential to make informed decisions. Luzmo provides various built-in data connectors and plugins to fetch data from external sources. Whenever a dashboard...
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Custom tooltip
With the custom tooltip, your users will benefit from extra information and insights you are exposing in your platform. This powerful feature allows you to fully customize the tooltip, which...
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Dynamically overriding themes when integrating your dashboard with embed tokens
If you want to provide dashboards themed corresponding to the user looking at it, you only need to create a template dashboard! You can then override the dashboard theme when...
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Multi-tenancy by using parameter filters
If you want to embed a dashboard that has access to a multi-tenant dataset which requires row-level filtering, you can apply parameter filters to the dataset and override these parameters...
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Dynamically Initializing Dropdown or a Slicer Filter in Embed Tokens
Introduction It may be desired to fix a filter to certain values so that the dashboard shows only that specific data when opening it. This customization is facilitated through the...
Adding and sharing your first dataset(s)
Once you've successfully connected your data source. We highly recommend only adding a specific dataset...
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Flex SDK
Creating visually appealing and interactive data visualizations can be a daunting task. Most easy-to-use graph building software falls short in providing the flexibility and customization required for complex data products....
Share dashboards and datasets and apply filters for specific "Luzmo" users
You can share dashboards and datasets to specific users or groups in Luzmo. When doing so, you can also specify filters that should be applied when these users look at...
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4.7 Setting up a responsive design with Screen Modes
At the top of the screen you can find several icons that correspond to virtual canvases of a specific width. Luzmo items can be placed, sized...
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Pivot table
Pivot tables are perfect charts for summarizing your data, grouping by catagories and displaying aggregated calculations. It allows you to transform columns into rows and the other way around. In...
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Designing for Clarity: Layout and Structure Best Practices
This article focuses on effective layout and structural design principles, such as optimizing screen space, minimizing clutter, and arranging data elements logically. Implementing these best practices will ensure that your...
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Embedding a Single Chart In Your Application
In this article, we explore how to embed a single chart within your application. We'll delve into this approach and how you can easily embed a single chart from one...
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Simplifying Internal Sharing using Groups and Collections
One of the key advantages of using groups is that managing access to resources becomes a breeze! By adding or removing someone from a group, their access to all collections,...
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Increasing the font - size of your dashboard when exporting
There are different ways to share your dashboard. One way to do so is by generating an export of your dashboard or showing it on a monitor. Here are a...
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Query caching
The data in your dashboard is live in case it is coming from a database or plugin. This means that new queries are being fired every time you open the...
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Dynamically initializing a Date filter in the Authorization request
Initializing a Date filter in the Authorization request and integrating the dashboard with the received key and token enables you to have prefiltered template dashboard to a certain date range...
Gathering initial requirements to kickstart analytical data modeling journey
In order to kick off an analytical data modeling project, it's of the utmost importance that you've investigated and documented all the details that need to be considered in the...
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Lightning-fast dashboards with Warp
A fast, performant analytics experience is the foundation for a premium product experience in customer-facing analytics. Speed up dashboards built on top of any data source by enabling our out-of-the-box...
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Pricing FAQ's
Luzmo’s licensing model works with three main plans that offer different levels of functionality and usage limits. All plans consist of a fixed fee and an optional variable fee in...
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How do I whitelabel my Luzmo environment?
Whitelabeling is a powerful feature in Luzmo, which allows you to add your own logo and branding to the Luzmo dashboard editor. In that way, you can adapt our powerful...
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Cleaning up blank or N/A values in dashboards
The best practice is usually to clean data inside the data source , unless there’s a good reason to keep or remap blank '' or NULL...
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AI Summary
The AI Summary widget in Luzmo Studio allows designers to add AI-powered summaries to a dashboard. It analyzes the dashboard’s charts and underlying data, then generates a summary highlighting the...
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Dynamically initializing a Slider filter in the Authorization request
It may be desired to fix a filter to certain values so that the dashboard shows only that specific data when opening it. This is possible by using filter initialization...
Dashboard and Widget Troubleshooting Guide
Welcome to our troubleshooting guide! We understand it can be frustrating when you encounter an issue in a dashboard or widget that you're not sure how to resolve, but don't...
Period comparisons
In this article, we'll guide you through setting up period comparisons in your Luzmo dashboards via the following functionalities: Period comparisons in charts - This section covers how to incorporate...
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4.4 Publishing and restoring dashboards through version history
On the top right of the dashboard editor you will find the Version history button. Clicking on it will show you a list of automatically saved versions of your dashboard...
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Usage Analytics
Similar to how you are using the data from your database in order to generate insights on your end users, the Usage Analytics functionality will allow you to visualize insights...
Transactional data models, and why they're suboptimal for analytical consumption
Transactional data models are designed to support day-to-day business operations by organizing data in a normalized table structure. As normalized data structures avoid data redundancies as much as possible, they...
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Set up alerting to receive a notification when a certain threshold is reached
Alert definition An alert is an automatic notification or warning process that can be used in many use cases, like reaching a sales target or going below a specific temperature...
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Dynamically override currencies when embedding your dashboard with embed tokens
Provide your user with a dashboard that fits his local settings and input data by dynamically overriding which currency symbol is displayed on the dashboard! You only need to create...
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Introduction
Are you ready to embark on a journey of empowerment and efficiency in Luzmo? This comprehensive guide will take you through the essential steps to set up and scale your...
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Query Logs
The Query Logs page in Luzmo is designed to enhance your ability to monitor, analyze, and optimize the performance of your data queries. This powerful tool offers a comprehensive overview...
Data 'Ready-for-production' Checklist
If you've successfully connected your data source to Luzmo, it might be useful to go through this checklist to ensure that everything is ready for production! First we'll give some...
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Performance tips
Your embedded reporting or analytics environment is an integral part of your SaaS app or platform, and users expect the same great performance as the rest of your application. This...
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4.2 Adding charts to your dashboards
To start creating our dashboard, let’s add a chart. To do so, click on Add item and add a Bar chart by dragging and dropping it into the canvas. After...
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Luzmo IQ implementation tips and tricks
Luzmo IQ is designed to work with any data source, data structure, and within any industry or context. While this is a great starting point, there are several options to...
Initialize a Dropdown or Slicer filter to the first available value
It may be desired to fix a filter to certain values so that the dashboard shows only that specific data when opening it. This is possible by using filter initialization...
Suborganization
Suborganizations in Luzmo are like silos for your application's users. By assigning a user to a specific suborganization in the Embed Authorization request, you ensure that they can only see...
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Setting a filter initialization
When creating a dashboard, there are several filter objects to implement. They can be used to limit your data and to display data for a specific value. Sometimes, it is...
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Migrate from Temporary Token to Embed Token
Important Update: SSO and Temporary Tokens are Deprecated Starting February 28, 2025, the legacy SSO Token and Temporary Token authentication methods will no longer be supported. All new features and...
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Adding dashboards to a Next.js application
You can easily embed dashboards in your Next.js application! We have a React component that makes this process a breeze! Some of the libraries currently used in our frontend component...
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Creating and setting a default organization theme
Creating dashboards that match your organization's image enhances brand consistency, ensuring that every user's experience reflects the organization's identity, colors, and overall visual style. This consistency fosters brand recognition and...
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Enhancing Dashboard's Looks: Color and Visual Emphasis Techniques
Maintain a Consistent Color Theme Uniform Color Palette: Use the same color scheme throughout the dashboard for similar data to ensure visual consistency. Avoid Drastic Changes: Refrain from switching colors...
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Tips & tricks when creating analytical data models
Creating analytical data models is a foundational step in leveraging data to drive business insights and decision-making. While the process can be complex, employing the right strategies and best practices...
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Evaluating and prioritizing business processes
In any analytical data modeling project, it's crucial to evaluate and prioritize business processes effectively. Focusing on the most impactful and feasible processes first ensures that your data models can...
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Consistent color
While creating dashboards, you are able to use multiple charts. The colors in the different charts are part of the chosen theme. While using multiple charts, the same item could...
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4.8 How to easily replace datasets
You may sometimes need to switch a dataset in a dashboard, either because of a change in the data source or because you’ve duplicated a dashboard to base your design...
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4.3 Tweaking the settings of your charts
The dashboard can interactively be filtered by anyone looking at it via the filter items and charts present on it. A designer can also add a static filter that cannot...
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Go-to-URL
Imagine you have a widget visualizing a certain KPI, and you want to allow your users to be directed to another webpage by clicking on a data point in that...
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Performance indicator
Every chart has a performance indicator which breaks down how fast its latest query was processed. This information can help identify less-performant widgets and optimize the performance of your dashboard....
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Designing effective data models for analytics
A sustainable and performant reporting environment starts with a solid and modern data architecture. Sadly, this kind of data architecture doesn’t happen by accident, nor...
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Measure & Dimension picker
Do you want to make your dashboards even more interactive for your users by giving them more control on the measures and dimensions being displayed? This is possible with the...
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Route Map
A route map uses coordinates and time or order data in order to display routes on a map. Route color, width and opacity can be used to highlight specific attributes....
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Multi-tenancy: an overview of the possibilities
Multi-tenancy is the ability of software to serve multiple clients. This means that depending on the client that logs into your platform, the embedded dashboard will show different numbers. This...
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Improving the consumption of analytical data models
To maximize the value of your analytical data models, it's essential to ensure that they can be easily and effectively consumed by business users through your BI tool. In Luzmo,...
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Plugin 'Ready-for-production' Checklist
Congratulations on completing your Luzmo plugin connector development! Before you launch it in production, please take a moment to ensure your plugin implementation aligns perfectly with...
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SQL datasets
Article overview In this article, we'll be describing the "SQL datasets" functionality that you can use in Luzmo to add datasets from your data source, using SQL statements. We'll explain...
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Using additional data in interactivity features
In the interactivity features Go-to-URL, Custom events and Custom tooltip, you can include aggregated results from any columns of the dataset used in a widget, even if these columns are...
Word cloud chart
The word cloud chart is a visual representation of words, which highlights the most popular ones based on frequency. The cloud generator provides you with quick and simple visual insights...
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Hexbin Map
A hexbin map uses hexagons to split the area into several parts and attribute a color to each of them. The graphic area is...
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How Single Sign-On (SSO) Works in Luzmo
Single Sign-On , such as Okta, Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure...
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2.7 Sharing datasets in Luzmo
You can share your dataset by clicking the ‘share’ button on the databoard or dataset details page as well as selecting it from the dataset’s three dot menu. The modal...
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Heat Map
A heat map is a two-dimensional representation of data in which various values are represented by colors. It provides an immediate visual summary of information across two axes, allowing users...
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2.10 Tips & tricks for datasets
Before we move on to dashboard creation, in this lesson we will mention a few tips and tricks to ensure your datasets are optimally set up. As we mentioned in...
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Making a Connection to a SAP HANA Database
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a SAP HANA database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a SAP HANA connection The supported...
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How to contact our support team?
Having trouble with a dashboard? Try these troubleshooting steps! The different channels through which you can contact our support team depend on your license. Basic and Professional accounts have access...
What happens when you delete a user
As an administrator, you will run into situations where you will have to delete certain users. The process is simple and starts in the "Organization" tab of your account settings....
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DMARC/SPF/DKIM configuration for whitelabeled "From" email address
After activating white-labeling, you have the option to customize the "From" email address and display name in the ‘Emails’ section of your ‘White-labeling’ tab. This will ensure that any transactional...
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How to query a dataset via our API
Luzmo's Core API exposes a Data service that allows you to query your dataset via a Get action! This might be useful in case you'd like to: Visualize some data...
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Connecting and sharing your data source(s)
Luzmo supports connecting all kinds of data source, using either our native connectors or a custom plugin connector for a realtime data connection. Next to that, you can also upload...
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Symbol Map
A symbol map uses symbols and colors to represent data variables in specific locations and allow quick, visual distribution analysis across a geographical area. How to create a Symbol Map...
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Date filter object
The Date filter object allows end users to specify date ranges. Either a custom date range can be specified or a common period can be selected, for example "Today" or...
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Making a Snowflake Connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a Snowflake database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a Snowflake connection The supported Snowflake data...
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Optimized analytical data storage and retrieval using Star schemas
In the world of data analytics, a well-structured and efficient data model is crucial for extracting meaningful insights. In this article, we will explore the concept of Star schemas and...
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Image object
Images can be a very helpful addition to enhance the visuals of your dashboard. It’s very easy to obtain. In the Luzmo dashboard editor, navigate to the items tab on...
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Number with evolution chart
Dashboards contain the main KPIs an organization needs to track. These are important numbers for which it could be desired to see the evolution compared to the previous time period....
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4.5 Adding filters to your charts
Let’s explore the dynamic aspects of the dashboard. First we will add a filter from the side menu - filters configured here can have an effect over full the dashboard...
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Using Native Array Columns in Luzmo
Why This Matters Arrays let you store multiple values in one place — like a list of tags or multiple categories for a product. With Luzmo’s new support for arrays,...
Making a Panoply Connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to Panoply How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a Panoply connection The supported Panoply data types and...
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Spike Map
A spike map uses the color and the size of spikes in order to show data location and distribution.Much like circles, spikes make large data values easier to visualize by...
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Search filter
The Search Filter enables users to find specific values through flexible, keyword-based searches. It is especially valuable when dealing with datasets that contain a large number of diverse values or...
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Making a Clickhouse Connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a Clickhouse database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a Clickhouse connection The supported Clickhouse data...
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Marker Map
A marker map places markers on specific locations in order to show data points and allow quick, visual distribution analysis across a geographical area. The numbers represent the amount of...
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Making a Connection to Oracle
This article covers: How to set up a connection to an Oracle database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on an Oracle connection The supported Oracle data...
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Leveraging Dynamic Benchmarking
One of the key inquiries your customers may have is understanding how their performance stacks up against industry standards. This type of insight, known as benchmarking, provides valuable comparative analysis....
Multi-tenancy via a plugin with internal logic by adding metadata to your embed authorization request
A Plugin is a small RESTful API that acts as an adapter between Luzmo and a source system. Within a plugin you can apply extra business rules. Instead of sending...
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Making a MariaDB Connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a MySQL database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a MySQL connection The supported MySQL data...
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Making a PostgreSQL Connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a PostgreSQL database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a PostgreSQL connection The supported PostgreSQL data...
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Remove download buttons
The charts in your dashboard have a download button in the right upper corner. This allows you to export the data or embed that chart. This might be handy in...
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Changing the settings of the Measure slot
When building a dashboard within Luzmo, you have a lot of possible charts to choose from. Every chart has his own specific settings, but the options for the measure data...
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Making a Trino or Presto connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a Trino/Presto database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a Trino/Presto connection The supported Trino/Presto data...
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Luzmo IQ
By embedding Luzmo IQ into your applications, you empower your users with instant, intelligent insights. This improves customer engagement, enhances decision-making, and reduces reliance on technical data teams. With Luzmo...
Making a Redshift Connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a Redshift database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a Redshift connection The supported Redshift data...
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Making a SQL Server Connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a SQL Server database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a SQL Server connection The supported...
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Slider filter
The Slider filter creates a visual representation of a range of data. On each side it has a kind of ‘handle’ which user can drag and select a...
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Making an AWS Athena Connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to an AWS Athena database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on an AWS Athena connection The supported...
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Making an Azure Synapse connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to an Azure Synapse database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on an Azure Synapse connection The supported...
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5.1 What's next?
Congratulations - you finished the getting started course! 🎉 You learned how our platform works and how you can create a powerful dashboard from scratch. But, I can image you...
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Regular Table
The Regular Table is the right choice if you want an unaggregated, detailed view of your data. In Luzmo, the Regular Table serves this purpose, and in this article, we...
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Making a BigQuery Connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a BigQuery database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a BigQuery connection The supported BigQuery data...
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Making a Connection to an ElasticSearch Cluster
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a ElasticSearch cluster How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a ElasticSearch connection The supported ElasticSearch data...
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How to connect my data?
There are a few ways of connecting your data. In this article we explain the different options and highlight some of the main aspects. Please refer to the respective "Making...
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Making a MySQL Connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a MySQL database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a MySQL connection The supported MySQL data...
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Making a MongoDB Connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a MongoDB database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a MongoDB connection The supported MongoDB data...
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Sunburst chart
The main use case for the sunburst chart is the visualization of hierarchies. Depending on your data, there are multiple circles and each circle represents one level of the hierarchy....
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Info tooltip (Annotate)
The info tooltip is extremely useful in case you want to provide your end users with more information on a specific chart. You can describe what is being visualized and...
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Sharing Data Connections
Connection Sharing is designed to simplify and expedite the sharing of data connections among team members to easily collaborate on projects and manage your data. What is Connection Sharing? Typically,...
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Box plot chart
A box plot is a way of summarizing a set of data measured on an interval scale and is often used in explanatory data analysis. This graph is used to...
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2.9 How to link multiple datasets
If you have multiple datasets that are related, you can link them within Luzmo to create a comprehensive view of the data available for your dashboards. When one dataset is...
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Writing your own SQL queries
Luzmo contains an interactive, visual editor for analysing data, that will generate SQL queries automatically for you. We will push through aggregations and filters to your data sources as much...
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Multi-tenancy by overriding data source properties
If your data is separated in different schemas, or databases, you can override any data source properties in the embed authorization request to dynamically use different properties. You could even...
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Schema caching (optional)
Often, when implementing the /query endpoints, it is necessary to know the type of the column that is used in the query. Since the /datasets...
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Dropdown filter
The Dropdown filter is a dropdown list of values you can search from and select to filter your data. Your browser does not support the video tag. How to create...
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2.6 The dataset details page
The dataset details page is opened by clicking on the ‘Edit details’ icon on the Databoard or the “More info” option in the dataset’s three dot menu. On the left...
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Line chart
The line chart is a perfect fit in case you want to track and trace the evolution of a specific quantitative value. It is frequently used to show trends and...
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Hierarchy editor
The hierarchy editor allows you to fully customize the display of your hierarchy column. Your browser does not support the video tag. Fixed Colors If you use a column in...
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Scatter plot & Scatter group
Scatter plot charts are best used for cases when you want to discover and showcase relationships between two variables. Scatter plot For a scatter plot two different variables are...
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Bubble plot & Colored bubble plot
Bubble plot is quite similar to scatter plot and this chart is widely used to visualize relations between three variables. Let’s have a closer look at it! Bubble plot For...
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Security and the Luzmo Trust Center
The Luzmo Trust Center is a self-service portal that can be used to retrieve information about Luzmo's security & compliance practices: You can use it to request documents (like SOC2...
2.8 Deleting datasets in Luzmo
If you want to delete a dataset, you can do so via the three dot menu in the overview page or by going to the dataset details. When deleting a...
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Currency
Luzmo has a range of available data types. One of these is "Currency" ! As the name already indicates, this data type can be used for columns containing numeric data...
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Area chart
The area chart is quite similar to the line chart. It can be used to track changes over time for one or more categories. You can also compare data from...
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Text object
Text items come in handy when you want to add some info regarding the dashboard. How to create it Text object can be found underneath the ‘General’ section. You can...
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Making a Databricks Connection
This article covers: How to set up a connection to a Databricks database How to add datasets How to do connection overrides on a Databricks connection The supported Databricks data...
Slicer (horizontal, table) filter
When using slicer filter, data is visualized as a list of values with a tick box next to each value. In this manner users are in full control of data...
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Conditional Colored Number
Conditional colored number charts display a single metric and conditionally color the chart based on a target Similar charts include: Bullet charts display data compared to a metric split out...
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Data types supported by Luzmo
The Luzmo platform supports a vareity of data types: these comprise 4 base-types of data and 4 special types of data. The following four are the "base types" in Luzmo....
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Video object
Enrich your dashboard by directly embedding a video into your dashboard. You can find the items in the item drawer, in the General category. Videos Videos can easily be embedded...
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Visualizations to use for which data
We have made a special flowchart for this important question!
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Choropleth Map
A choropleth map is a type of statistical thematic map that uses colors corresponding with a number range to summarize a geographic characteristic within a geographic area. Typically Choropleths are...
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How to only show data when there is a minimum number of results
When displaying aggregated data, sometimes it's important to have a minimum number of results before displaying the data. This is critical when displaying anonymous aggegated user data in order to...
Speedometer
Speedometer charts compare a single metric to a target. Ranges in the speedometer can be set to indicate progress towards the target, and a marker indicates current progress. Similar charts...
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Donut chart
Resembling the pie chart, the donut chart is one of the most commonly used charts of all time. The donut chart is useful when you want to compare parts of...
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Pie chart
Everyone knows the famous pie chart, which was created by William Playfair in the 18th century. It is the most commonly used chart of all times and has food in...
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Circle pack chart
Thinking about visualizing hierarchies without using a traditional chart? Then we have the perfect solution for you: our amazing circle pack chart! Circle pack chart The circle pack chart is...
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Introduction
Welcome to the Getting Started course! I hope you are excited to learn new things. In this course, you will get familiar with our platform, get to know the dataset...
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Connect a database by whitelisting our IP addresses
Luzmo connects to your database or data source from a dedicated static set of IP addresses. You can whitelist them to restrict access to your data source to just Luzmo....
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1.1 Overview of the Luzmo platform
When you log in to the Luzmo platform you’ll find on the left-hand navigation bar several sections of our application, such as the Dashboards, Datasets, Connections, Integrations, Collections, Walkthroughs and...
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Drill down
If you have a chart visualizing your sales data per year, you might want to give your end users the possibility to drill down in time to get more into...
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2.5 Setting the default format of columns
In the databoard you can specify what is the default format for columns so that when you add them to new charts you won’t have to manually modify the format...
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Creating a column with coordinates
Within Luzmo, you can add a map to your dashboard. To create that, you need to have geography data in your dataset. You can use coordinates for this. Let me...
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Duration
Luzmo has a range of available data types. One of these is "Duration" ! As the name already indicates, this data type can be used for columns containing duration data....
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Maintaining your analytical data model(s)
As your business grows and evolves, so too must your analytical data models. Maintaining these models is not just about keeping them operational; it involves continuously refining, extending, and optimizing...
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Cheatsheet: Commonly Used Derived Columns
Below is a cheatsheet of commonly used derived columns! Derived columns allow you to create formulas at the row-level to change or transform your data. You can find out more...
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2.4 Using derived columns to enhance your data
You can add a column to a dataset by clicking the ‘Add column’ button. This can either be a Derived column or a Coordinates column. With derived columns you can...
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2.1 How to add a new dataset
Now let’s connect your data by clicking on the blue ‘new dataset’ button. A modal window appears, where you can search for a specific connector on top. On the left...
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Add a user to your Luzmo organization
As an Owner, you can add new users to your organization and define which role they have. If you are instead looking for how to create authorization tokens for users...
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Streamgraph
A streamgraph chart is quite similar to the area chart. It is perfect when you want to track value change over time for one or more categories. It is widely...
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Rank slicer filter
Add interactivity to your dashboard with filter objects. So your users can explore the data and get valuable insights from it! This article will go over rank slicer filter. Let’s...
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Summary of "Analytical data modeling" course
As we reach the conclusion of this data modeling course, we've provided a comprehensive wrap-up of everything we've covered below. In case you didn't go through the course, this...
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Registering your plugin
When connecting your data through a plugin to Luzmo, you need to let Luzmo know where your plugin is hosted and which type of plugin you have. To do so,...
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Dynamically retrieve your data for a basic plugin & transform the result
Dynamically retrieve your data The /query endpoint is called to request a particular slice of data from one dataset. All columns should be returned, in the same order as defined...
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How to create a group
Your organization can consist of multiple users with different roles. As the owner, you might want to put some of them together under the same name. That is possible by...
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Circular gauge
Circular gauge charts compare a single metric to a target and can be conditionally colored. Similar charts include: Bullet charts display data compared to a metric split out over different...
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How to monitor the Luzmo platform status?
You can follow the real-time Luzmo platform status via our status page, follow recent releases in our changelogs or subscribe to our RSS feed. Status page Each component of the...
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Edit the credentials of your database
Once you have connected your database to create powerful dashboards, it might be desired to edit its credentials. This might be handy in case you want to switch from your...
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Aggregations
In Luzmo, there is a high range of possible building blocks to create your perfect dashboard. You can use your data in many different ways and tell the same story...
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Open-high-low-close chart
If you want to analyze some financial data over a period of time - an open-high-low-close chart would be very useful. You can easily track day-to-day changes of various financial...
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Candlestick chart
Candlestick chart is a perfect choice for tracking and visualizing financial data. It is widely used in trading and usually describes price movements. Let’s check it together! Candlestick chart Candlestick...
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Combination chart
What is a Combination Chart? The combination chart is a data visualization that combines the features of the bar chart, line chart, scatter plot, and area chart. The combination chart...
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Cumulative sum
Sometimes, you wish to see the numbers being added over time or for multiple categories. The running total can give you an idea about how your business is doing, depending...
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