FarmQA Analytics: creating metric visualizations – FarmQA

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

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

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.

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).