KPI Metric
In Holistics, KPI Metric visualization presents your data as a single number. This is a simple yet effective way to draw attention and invite further data exploration.
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When to use KPI Metric?
Sometimes, a number is worth a thousand words. KPI Metric visualization is the best choice when you just want a snapshot of your performance, or quickly compare your number with another value (for example, past performance, goals...)
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Create a KPI Metric Visualization
Step-by-step guide
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Follow these steps to create your KPI Metric chart:
Go to Visualizations dashboard and select KPI Metric.
In the Value field, either add a pre-defined custom measure to be used as the KPI value. You can even drag a dimension here and the KPI Metric chart will automatically turn it into an aggregated measure.
- Example of custom measure: You can define a custom measure of Sales in September 2021 from your raw column Sales.
- Example of automatically generated aggregate measure: The dimension Email when input into Value field has transformed into the aggregate measure Count of Email.
(Optional) Another custom measure/ dimension to compare the KPI value with.
- Compare with absolute value (Default) : If you input a custom measure/ dimension with this option on, your KPI will be compared against this value.
- Compare with other period: This option will let you compare your KPI with itself in a previous period. For more information, check out the Period over Period feature.
![](https://cdn.holistics.io/docs/metric-kpi-step-by-step.png)
Click
Get Result
.If you have added the
Comparison value
in step 2, hover over the Delta (represented as a small text above the KPI value) to see the raw numerical values and the Delta.
Styling options
![](https://cdn.holistics.io/docs/readme/d529b0a-styling_metrickpi.png)
In the Styles tab, you can specify how you want to display your number. There are four modes:
- Single: Only the Value will be displayed
- Compare by number: the difference between Value and Comparison Value will be displayed as a raw number
- Compare by percent: the difference will be displayed as a percentage
- Progress: a progress bar with goal completion percentage will be displayed under the Value.
![](https://cdn.holistics.io/docs/readme/9db9beb-Selection_436.png)
- Reverse color: By default, in comparison modes, green means increasing (positive) and red means decreasing (negative). For metrics that hold negative meanings (for example, churn rate, revenue lost...) you can reverse the color:
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