Build a data dashboard
Arrange multiple chart widgets on a VizChat canvas into a shareable, refreshable data dashboard.
Unlike a Storyboard (linear narrative), a dashboard is flat and freely explorable. VizChat's canvas fits this naturally: every chart is an independent widget, kept in sync through the Agent conversation.
Typical scenario
A growth lead needs, every Monday morning:
- A DAU / WAU line chart
- A 7-day retention pie chart
- A new-users-by-channel bar chart
- A weekly digest (Rich Text widget)
All on a single canvas, opened live in the Monday sync.
Step-by-step
- Upload the source: upload
metrics-weekly.csvinto the file tree. - Let the Agent draft: prompt "Using
metrics-weekly.csv, build a DAU line chart, a 7-day retention pie chart, and a channel acquisition bar chart — lay them out on the canvas." - Rearrange: the Agent usually stacks vertically; drag into a 2×2 grid. Drag on an empty area to box-select several widgets, then drag the whole selection into place.
- Add context widgets: insert a Rich Text widget titled
## This week's highlightswith 3 bullets; insert apdf-viewerwidget pointing at this week's product review PDF. - Unify the look:
colorSchemeis per-widget — select a single chart and set it in the right-side property panel (valid values:default,pastel,vibrant,business,warm,cool,accessible). To make every chart of a type match, ask the Agent to set a document-level default for that widget type; it then appears under Widget Defaults in the property panel, where you can adjust it once for all of them. - Cross-chart Q&A: ask in chat "How much did channel A's new users drop WoW?" — the Agent reads the canvas data and answers, no Excel detour.
- Hand it off: export the board as a
.vizpkgpackage, or open it in full-screen present mode for the Monday sync.
Refresh cadence
Upload the new CSV — it lands as a new file, since uploading a name that already exists auto-renames it to metrics-weekly (1).csv rather than overwriting. Then ask the Agent: "Regenerate the DAU line chart from the new metrics-weekly.csv" — it updates items on the same widget rather than creating a duplicate.
Pick the right widget type
| Need | Recommended widget type |
|---|---|
| Time series | line-chart |
| Part-of-whole | pie-chart |
| Category comparison | bar-chart |
| Narrative | Rich Text widget |
| Cite an external page | web-viewer (reader text, not a live embed) |
Next step
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