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Heatmap 2 — Heatmap. Columns are State. Rows are Sub-Category. Color is Profit.
Heatmap chart of Profit, grouped by State, split by Sub-Category, sorted by Profit and Profit.

Data
Programmatic variations on the Superstore retail sales dataset, showing the flexibility of Perspective's configuration: the same table re-queried as data grids, pivot tables and charts by changing only the viewer's JSON config.
Loaded from /data/superstore.lz4.arrow as arrow into the perspective-server engine.
Configuration
This example is a saved <perspective-viewer> workspace. Pass this JSON to viewer.restoreWorkspace() to reproduce it over the same table:
{
"layout": {
"type": "tab-layout",
"tabs": [
"p0"
],
"selected": 0
},
"panels": {
"p0": {
"table": "",
"title": "Heatmap 2",
"plugin": "Heatmap",
"group_by": [
"State"
],
"split_by": [
"Sub-Category"
],
"columns": [
"Profit"
],
"sort": [
[
"Profit",
"desc"
],
[
"Profit",
"col desc"
]
],
"theme": null
}
},
"active": "p0"
}
About Perspective
Perspective is an open-source, WebAssembly-powered data grid, pivot table and charting component for large, real-time and streaming datasets — in the browser, Python, Jupyter, Node.js and Rust.
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