Timeline

A timeline allows you to view how data has changed over time: for example, how the demand for purchasing real estate changed in different seasons. With the timeline, you can:

• Filter layer data by an attribute with the Date type without changing a data sample. To do this, you can select a time period on the timeline to display layer data on the dashboard scene.
• Play an animation of data changes for the selected period.
• View a graph with the distribution of the number of objects depending on the time period.

You can use the timeline for layers with any data visualization methods, except for the Buildings method.

Example of working with the timeline:

Configuring a widget

1. Go to the Dashboards tab.

2. Open the required dashboard.

3. Open a scene using the arrows and . If there is only one scene in the dashboard, it opens automatically.

4. Click icon in the lower-left corner.

5. Specify the timeline parameters.

6. Manage the data viewing with the player using any of the following ways:

   • Use the and buttons (not available for the Contour visualization method).
   • Use the arrows and .
   • Move the slider manually.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Data source	Data layer.
Time attribute	Data attribute with the Date type: date only, date and time, or date and time with a timezone. Make sure that when uploading data as a file, you specified the data in supported date and time formats and selected the Date value in the Type column.
Step size	Step size used to shift the time interval limits when playing the animation. The timeline graph displays the distribution of the number of objects depending on the specified step size. You can specify any value in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, or years.
Specified interval	Limits of the time interval used to display data.
Playback mode	How the specified time interval shifts along the timeline when the animation is playing: Change: both limits of the time interval are shifted by the step size. Accumulation: the left limit of the interval remains unchanged, and the right limit shifts by the step size. The data accumulates over time.
Animation speed	Speed at which the data on the dashboard scene is updated when the animation is playing. Configured in the lower-left corner of the timeline. For example, 1.0 is once per second, 2.0 is twice per second, etc.

What's next?

• Get to know more about other Widgets types.
• Quick start.
• Get to know how to work with Data and Data visualization.
• Get to know more about Layers, Dashboards, and Scenes.
• Get to know Analytics scenarios.