mySidewalk

mySidewalk has many customizable components to visualize data, but how do you decide which ones to use?

Data Visualization Best Practices

Amanda Nelson

Kaitlyn Foster

Jennifer Funk

Visualize

Learn how to make a map with both mySidewalk data and/or your custom user data.

Create a Map in mySidewalk

Learn how to change the way your map looks with both mySidewalk and your custom user data.

Change the Way Your Map Looks

Learn how to make a map with filters with both mySidewalk and your custom user data.

How to Use Map Filters

Step-by-step instructions on mapping two variables in mySidewalk.

How to Create a Bivariate Map in mySidewalk

Learn why the data you tried to put in your map may not be displaying.

Troubleshooting: Why is My Map All 1 Color?

Maps

Learn how to add text box so you can write your data-driven story.

Add Text to a Report or Dashboard

Learn how to make a callout, a good way to highlight a single data value.

Create a Callout

Create a Bar Graph/Bar Chart

Learn how to make a table using data from the mySidewalk data library or data uploaded to your account.

Create a Data Driven Table

Learn how to make a time series with both mySidewalk data and your custom user data.

Create a Time Series (a line graph plotted over time)

Learn how to make and understand a scatter plot / correlation with both mySidewalk data and your data.

Correlations / Scatter Plots

Why does the data tab appear dithered or unclickable inside a Press Board

FAQ: why can I not change the data in my chart?

Learn how to build a pie chart and when to use a different chart type.

Create a Pie Chart

Aliyah Hunter

Data-Driven Visualizations

Learn how to create and customize a bar chart for your report or dashboard using your user-uploaded data.

How To: Build & Edit a Bar Graph with Your User Data

Learn how to make a custom chart with data you enter directly into the visualization.

Create a Custom Chart with Manually Entered or Imported Data

Learn how to solve problems that arise when you're trying to create charts with your uploaded data.

Troubleshooting Visualizations Built with your Data

Visualizing Data You Uploaded

Learn how and when to use this color palette generator (aka Colorviz)

Access and Use the Accessibility Color Palette Generator

How to create a time series chart with two variables

Create a Time Series Chart with two lines (variables) using the one geography

Learn how to make a goal tracker with your custom user data.

Create a Goal Tracker

Learn how to make a progress tracker with your custom user data.

Create a Progress Tracker

Learn how to make a promo card to help organize your dashboard and create space for external information.

Create a Promo Card

Learn how to easily embed video content using two methods.

Embed Videos in Your Report or Dashboard Using a URL or Code

Learn how to make a button in the mySidewalk Platform.

Make a Button

Customize the minimum and maximum of your chart axes.

Set the Min/Max of Chart Axes in Data Visualizations

Learn how to track performance on key indicators with bar chart and time series static lines to show goals, thresholds, averages, and more.