Create Charts to Visualize Time Series Data

About Creating Visualizations for Time Series Data

Advanced Visualization enables you to create visualizations for the time series data that is collected for the asset tags over a specified time period. For more information on retrieving the time series data for asset tags, refer to the Time Series Data Retrieval Service topic in the Time Series Data help.

You can use the tag browser to access the assets available for your tenant and select the associated asset tags for which you want to retrieve the time series data. Advanced Visualization provides a curated data source for visualizing time series data. The data source is designed using a reporting object and contains fields that can be used to create time series data charts. Based on the selected asset tags and the fields selected from the data source, you can create and customize the visualizations for time series data.

Additionally, using the charts created for time series data, you can create a dashboard. The dashboard has filtering capabilities that allow you to either specify filter criteria to view data for a predefined period of time, or configure a custom date range to display data that matches the duration.

About the Tag Browser

The Tag Browser enables you to choose assets and the associated asset tags to visualize the time series data retrieved for the tags.

The Tag Browser window contains the following sections:

Asset Browser: Enables you to select the assets associated with the asset tags for which you want to visualize the time series data. When you select an asset, the asset and the associated assets tags appear in the Tag Browser section.
Tag Browser: Enables you to select the asset tags for which you want to visualize the time series data. When you select an asset tag, it appears in the Plotted Tags section. Based on the plotted tags and the fields selected from the Time Series Data data source, the visualizations displaying the time series data are created.
Settings: Contains the following settings:
- Time Span: Enables you to specify the time period for which you want to visualize data when the visualization is created. When you run the visualization, the data for the specified time period appears by default.
  Note: The default time period selected in the Time Span drop-down list box is one week.
- Data Operation: Enables you to configure the type of data that you want to visualize. Based on your selection, the raw or interpolated time series data appear on the visualization. For more information on the raw and interpolated data types, refer to the Time Series Data help.

Create a Chart or Dashboard to Visualize Time Series Data

Procedure

Access the Advanced Visualization page.
Select Visualize Data.
The Advanced Visualization Designer page appears, displaying a designer canvas to create the chart.
Select Tag Browser.
The Tag Browser window appears, displaying the asset hierarchy in the Asset Browser section.
In the Tag Browser window, do the following:
1. In the Asset Browser section, select the assets associated with the asset tags for which you want to visualize the time series data.
2. In the Tag Browser section, select the asset tags for which you want to visualize the time series data.
Note: For more information on the fields available in the Tag Browser window, refer to the About the Tag Browser topic.
Select Apply.
The settings in the Tag Browser are saved.
Select the Add Data button.
The Select Data Source window appears, displaying the available data sources.
In the WORKSPACE menu, select gedigital-baseline.
A table appears, displaying the folders containing the data sources available in the Predix Essentials baseline domain.
Navigate to the timeseries folder, select timeseries_reporting_object, and then select Select.
The Dimensions and Measures associated with the data source appear in the Advanced Visualization Designer page.
As needed, design the chart, and then save the chart.
The time series data chart is created for the selected asset tags.
Note:
- For more information on how to create and publish charts, refer to the help documentation integrated with Advanced Visualization.
- You can add the chart to a dashboard to filter and view the time series data for a specific period. You can also specify a custom date range to view data corresponding to the period.