Animating Data & Real-time Data

Animate your time series data to visualize dynamic changes over time on the Map. This is useful for observing trends, movement, or live updates from real-time data sources as part of Videowall Data Analytics.

Animation Types

There are two animation types, based on whether your data includes temporal (time-based) information:

1. Realtime

• The Map will update when there is a data change on connected data sources.
• Manual animation controls (Play, Pause, Loop) are disabled.
• Realtime is automatically selected if no time column exists in your dataset.
• If data includes temporal data, only the latest data is shown.

2. Animation

• Can be used if your data includes temporal data (e.g., timestamps).
• Allows playback of historical or simulated data changes over time.

Animation type can be selected from Data Input item on Settings.

Animation Settings

• Show Label: Displays the current time of the animation on the screens.
• Force Label: Forces the label to appear even if labels are globally disabled for the layout.
• Start / End Time: Define the time interval to animate. This must match the time range in your dataset.

Animation Controls

Customize the visual appearance of your animation:

• You can determine duration of the animation (Bottom Right).
• Crop and Slide Min-Max Window on overall duration to limit playback (Second Slider).
• Manually move Play slider to go to a certain time in data (First Slider).
• You can see the current time in data (Top Right).
• Use Play/Pause/Stop and AutoPlay Buttons (Bottom Left)
• AutoPlay does not play animation on editors. Instead it start animation when a layout with this map is deployed to videowall or dashboards (screenspace).