Treemap chart

A treemap chart is composed of differently-sized rectangles to provide a hierarchical view of the data. It helps you to easily depict the part-to-whole relationship in your data among various categories. You can also choose to group the rectangles based on category.

Creating treemap charts

Follow the steps below to create a treemap chart.

  • Open the required table, and click the Create New icon > New Chart View. Or Click the Create button from the side panel, and select Chart View.
  • In the page that appears, drop the columns as mentioned below. You can add multiple metrics columns in Y-Axis or add a dimensional column in Color. Refer to this section to learn more about possible combination for creating a treemap chart.
    • X-Axis: Drop a dimension column to categorize the data.
    • Y-Axis: Drop a metrics column.
  • Click the Click here to Generate Graph button.
  • Change the chart type to Treemap.

Customizing treemap charts

Zoho Analytics offers extensive options to customize the treemap chart. To do this, open the required treemap chart and click the Settings icon. In the page that appears, navigate to the Tree Map tab. The following are the available options.

  • Header: Select the Show header checkbox to add a header to the category. You can also format the Font, Color, and Position of the header.
  • Show Data Label: Select the Show corresponding value as data label checkbox to add the data value for each rectangle as a label. You can format the Font and Position of the label.
  • Chart Styling: This option allows you to enhance the look and feel of the chart.
    • Enable Tint: Select this checkbox to add a gradient effect for the chart filling. The gradient will be applied from dark to light based on your chart sorting order. This will be beneficial to represent the intensity of each segment.
    • Padding: The slider allows you to set the space between each rectangle.
    • Card Radius: This slider allows you to set the radius for the rectangle corner.

Once you have set all options, click Apply. The treemap chart will be customized.

Possible combinations for creating treemap charts

 X-axisY-axisColorTextSizeTooltip
Case 1DimensionAggregate/
Optional		Dimension/
Aggregate/
Measure/
Optional		Aggregate/
Measure/
Optional		Aggregate/
Optional		Aggregate/
Measure/
Optional
Case 2AggregateDimension/
Optional		Dimension/
Aggregate/
Measure/
Optional		Aggregate/
Measure/
Optional		Aggregate/
Optional		Aggregate/
Measure/
Optional
Case 3Aggregate/
Optional		DimensionDimension/
Aggregate/
Measure/
Optional		Aggregate/
Measure/
Optional		Aggregate/
Optional		Aggregate/
Measure/
Optional
Case 4Dimension/
Optional		AggregateDimension/
Aggregate/
Measure/
Optional		Aggregate/
Measure/
Optional		Aggregate/
Optional		Aggregate/
Measure/
Optional
Case 5Dimension/
Optional		Multiple Aggregate-Aggregate/
Optional		Aggregate/
Optional		Aggregate/
Optional
  • Dimension: A column with the Actual Value function applied over it. It is usually a text, date, or geo datatype column. If it is a numeric column, the Actual values will be divided into Actual Measure, Actual Dimension, and Actual Range.
  • Aggregate: A column with an aggregate function (sum, average, count, etc) applied over it. It is usually a numeric column with the data type being Number, Positive Number, Decimal, Percentage, or Currency. It can also be an aggregate formula column.