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Ordering Data Ingredients and Default Selections
Ordering Data Ingredients and Default Selections

When creating a visualization in Juicebox, you can choose how you want to order your data. It can make a big difference for your audience.

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Written by Zach Gemignani
Updated over 4 years ago

Many visualizations in Juicebox have the opportunity to choose multiple data ingredients to show in your data story. For example:

Data Cards show a set of either measures or dimension ingredients. The individual items can be selected in order to drive the content and visualizations in your data story.

Leaderboard ranks a dimension ingredient (e.g. countries, products, customers) by a set of selected measure ingredients. Each column in the leaderboard shows the dimension items ranked by an individual measure.

Other visualizations types with ingredient ordering include the Filters and Table.

For these visualization types, the Slice editor (in your Story Designer tab) will let you select multiple data ingredients from a drop-down list. You can then drag and drop the individual data ingredient pills to reorder the data ingredients. Press 'Save' to update your data story with the newly ordered group of data ingredients.

Why is ordering important?

The choices you make about ordering your data ingredients will result in the default selections when your users first see the data story.

For example, it is common in Juicebox to use a Data Card to show a series of key measures, and allowing the selection of a measure to determine the content of another visualizations, like a Bar Chart (see the example below). In this case, your users will start their experience by seeing the first measure selected. This selection implicitly tells your audience that this first measure is most important. Some of your users may not even realize they can select another measure to change the content of the bar chart below.

Your choice of order for data ingredients carries an implied importance for your users. The first items in the list may define the data exploration path that your users first experience. Even the order of a set of filters or columns in a table will define what your users look at first. Consider what experience you want your users to have the first time they log in and reorder your data ingredients accordingly.

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