Parabola tables & visualizations

In this lesson, we dive into dashboards and visualizations and the core concepts behind Tables — databases that live in Parabola.

Building challenge

Add a new card

Above your “Trigger an email” card, add a card titled “Create a Parabola Table”.

Add a Send to Parabola Table step

Add a Send to Parabola Table step to the card.

Configure the step

Name your table “Parabola University Sales Data” and keep the “Overwrite the table” setting as-is.

Populate the Table

Hit “Run Flow” to populate the Table with data.

In this challenge, we’ll create a visualization on the canvas to look at sales over time.

Add a new card

Below your “Trigger an email” card, add a card titled “Visualize sales over time”.

Add a Visualize step

Add a Visualize step to the card.

Connect your data

Draw an arrow from Categorize with AI to Visualize and click “Edit this view”.

Switch to a Column chart

In the top left, change the view from a Table to a Column chart.

Configure the chart

Name the chart “Sales over time”, then:

Set X-axis to Order date
Under Y-axis, click ”+ Add series”, select Revenue, and change Count all to Sum

Bonus: Format the axes

In your X- and Y-axis options, name your axes “Month” and “Revenue” respectively, and format your Y-axis as currency.