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Francis_Kabinoff
Former Employee
Former Employee

If you want to use data from a hypercube to create a chart with picasso.js you're probably going to want to use the picasso.js q plugin. The q plugin makes it easy to extract data from a hypercube for use with picasso.js. In this post I'm going to go through the steps needed to use the q plugin for picasso.js to show you how to use hypercube data to create a chart with picasso.js, and also go over updating the chart when the hypercube data changes, and making selections in the QIX Engine from a picasso.js chart.

 

picasso.js scatter plot with hypercube data.png

Check out this observable notebook of creating a scatter plot with hypercube data and the q plugin

 

Setup picasso.js

You'll need to install picasso and picassoQ, and register picassoQ with picasso. You can install them with npm install --save picasso.js picasso-plugin-q, and then register picassoQ with picasso like below.

import picasso from 'picasso.js';

import picassoQ from 'picasso-plugin-q';

 

picasso.use(picassoQ); // this registers the picasso q plugin with picasso.js

 

Create and update picasso.js chart with hypercube data

You'll need a hypercube of course. I'm going to assume here that you know how to create a hypercube with the App API or enigma.js, and if not, there's other resources for learning how to do that, so we won't cover it again here. Below is a general pattern for creating and updating a picasso.js chart after creating a hypercube with enigma.js

(async () => {

const hypercube = await qDoc.createSessionObject(/* hypercube def */);

const layout = await hypercube.getLayout();

createPic(layout); // function that calls chart method on a picasso instance

hypercube.on('changed', async () => {  // listen for updates to hypercube

    const newLayout = await hypercube.getLayout();  // get new layout

    updatePic(newLayout); // function that calls update method on a picasso instance

})

})()

.

In the above block, we create a hypercube, get the layout, and call a function we define that calls the chart method on an instance of picasso.js. Then we watch for the hypercube to update, and can use the update method of picasso.js to simply update the data for the chart. The createPic and updatePic functions might look something like this.

let chart;

const createPic = (layout) => {

chart = picasso().chart({

   element: document.querySelector('#container'), // some DOM element

   data: [{

     type: 'q', // this tells picasso the data is from a hypercube

     key: 'qHyperCube', // path to the hypercube from the layout,

     data: layout.qHyperCube

   }],

   settings: {} // the chart settings (scales, components, etc.)

});

}

 

const updatePic = (layout) => {

chart.update({ // we just need to update the data

    data: [{

     type: 'q',

     key: 'qHyperCube',

     data: layout.qHyperCube

    }]

});

}

 

 

Making selections in the QIX engine

The picasso q plugin has helper functions for generating methods to make QIX selections from a picasso.js brush. You just get a reference to the brush using the brush method of picasso, then use the selections method of picassoQ to generate the QIX methods, then apply them to your QIX model. It would look something like this.

const brush = chart.brush('name-of-brush'); // get reference to brush

const selection = picassoQ.selections(brush)[0]; // generate selection method

qDoc[selection.method](...selection.params); // apply selection method to model

 

 

And that's it. You can check out the observable notebook I created for this blog post‌, and the picasso-plugin-q‌ too.

2 Comments
jerifortune
Creator III
Creator III

Interesting. Thanks.

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mahitham
Creator II
Creator II

 Hi @Francis_Kabinoff@jerifortune

Could you please provide any example with integrating Picasso with qliksense and please let me know which editor is used for installing the Picasso plugin and for writing the above code.

Thanks in advance.

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