FarmQA Analytics: creating metric visualizations

Once you've setup metrics to track in your account, you can start to create graphs and other visualizations of your datasets. Check out this article to become more familiar with the Metrics explorer tab and learn how to create metric visualizations. 

Navigating the Metrics explorer tab

Creating a metric visualization

Putting multiple metric visualizations in one graph

Exporting metric graph views

Navigating the Metrics explorer tab

• All of the metrics that you have setup in the Metrics tab can found in the Metrics view. Your metrics are organized alphabetically under the Category that you have set for each metric. 
• Any metric visualizations that you have saved and created can be accessed from the Views tab (shown below).

• In the center of the screen, your current active metric visualization will be displayed. This is the visualization that you're either viewing or editing currently. 
• On the right-hand corner of the screen, you can find all the categories you can use to sort your metric visualizations by. You can sort your metrics by the following categories:
  • Date: set the date range want to collect metric data to visualize.
  • Farms and Fields: choose the organization level(s) you want metric data aggregated over. 
  • Crops: select the crop(s) assigned to the fields you want to see your metric visualized for.

NOTE: to create a metric visualization, you MUST have a Date, Farms and Field, and Crop selected. 

• • Group by Dimensions: to get a better idea as to what is happening in your fields, you can also group your metric visualizations by dimensions like field, farm, crop, variety, or master crop. Pictured below, you can see an example of a metric visualization that is not grouped and one that is grouped by crop variety. 

Creating a metric visualization

• Log in to your FarmQA account from the web app if you aren't already.
• Click on Analytics  then go to the Metrics explorer tab.
• Find and select the Metric you want to create a visualization for in the left-hand side of the screen.

• At the top of the screen, choose the type of metric visualization you want to create. You can create the following chart types: 

• • If the data you are making visualizations for is numeric, you can make the following graphs/charts: 
    • Line chart
    • Heat map
    • Field averages map
    • Range chart 
    • Bar chart

• • If the data you are making visualizations for is from a picklist (i.e. a set of predetermined values), then you can generate the following graph/chart:  
    • Bar chart
    • Line chart
      • NOTE: picklist data values will be charted as lines over time and overlayed with picklist colors in the proper value ranges. This can help you better map your qualitative data over time. You can see an example of this below.

• On the right-hand side of the screen, select the date range, organization levels, and crops assigned to the fields you want displayed in your visualization.

• If desired, select the dimensions you want to group your visualization by in the GROUP BY DIMENSIONS section.  

• Once you have setup your metric visualization, click the Save icon at the top of the screen. Give your metric visualization a Name, then when you're one click the Save button.

Putting multiple metric visualizations in one graph

• Log in to your FarmQA account from the web app.
• Click on the Analytics  icon, then go to the Metrics explorer tab.
• In the setup a metric visualization like described in this section.
• At the top center of the screen, click the Compare metrics button (pictured below). 

• Do the following to setup your new metric visualization: 
  1. Use the Metric dropdown to choose the metric data you want to add to your visualization.
  2. Use the Graph type dropdown to choose how you want this data graphed. Metric visualizations added to other charts can only be Line, Range, or Bar charts.

• When you're done, press the Close button. 
• Your new visualization comparing your two desired metrics will be displayed, and will be able to be Saved or Downloaded like any other metric visualization. 

Exporting metric graph views

• Log in to your FarmQA account from the web app. 
• Click on the Analytics  icon, then go to the Metrics explorer tab.
• Locate the metric graph you want to download by creating it in the Metrics view or by locating it in the Views view. 
• Click on the Download  icon at the top of the screen (pictured below). 

• Your metric graph will download as a .PNG image like the one pictured below.

Please contact FarmQA Support with any further questions