Charts help you explore patterns in your data, compare groups, and communicate insights clearly. In Attest, charts can be created and edited in a few different ways, depending on whether you are analysing results or building a board for sharing.

Creating charts with Compass

Compass can help you create charts more quickly by turning natural language descriptions into visualisations on a board.

Instead of manually setting up chart types, splits, and variables, you can describe the comparison or breakdown you want to see and let Compass create the chart for you.

For example, you can ask Compass to:

Show the difference in shopping habits between male and females
Visualise differences between markets
show a trend over time using a line chart

Compass will generate the chart, apply the relevant splits, and add it to your board, where you can then review, edit, and refine it as needed.

Where charts can be created

Charts can be created in two main places:

On the results pages
Here, you can view any question as a chart, add splits, and explore the data interactively. Charts created on results pages can later be saved to a board.
On boards
Boards are designed for reporting and sharing. You can add charts manually, create them with Compass, or save charts from results pages to a board.

Types of charts you can create

There are two main ways to view results as charts:

Total results charts
These show overall results for a question, without any breakdown. Total charts are useful for understanding the headline result.
Split charts
These break results down by another variable, such as a demographic, segment, answer, or wave. Split charts are used to compare how different groups responded.

Adding splits to charts

On results pages, splits are added using the panel on the left-hand side. Select the variable you want to split by to update the chart immediately. This will apply to all questions.

On boards, splits are added per chart. Open the chart, select Edit, then choose Add splits to apply one or more splits.

This difference allows you to show multiple charts on a board, each with different splits.

Editing charts

To edit a chart, select Edit on the chart. This opens the chart editing panel.

From here, you can customise how the chart looks and how data is displayed.

Choosing and changing chart types

You can change the chart type at any time.

Available chart types include:

column and bar charts
pie charts
line charts (often useful for trends over time)
stacked column and stacked bar charts

Different chart types are better suited to different questions, so it’s often useful to switch between them when exploring results.

On boards, you can also create funnel charts, a specialised chart type designed for analysing drop-off across steps. For more detail, see Creating funnel charts on boards.

Merging answers

You can merge answer options directly from the chart edit panel.

Next to the answer list, select Merge to:

combine multiple answers into a single category
rename the merged answer
unmerge answers later if needed

Merged answers are saved at the question level, not just for an individual chart. This means the merged structure applies wherever that question appears, including other charts and boards.

Customising colours

You can customise the colours used in a chart to improve clarity or align visuals with your brand. When editing a chart, you can select a theme as well as assign specific colours to individual variables or answers.

There are a few Attest themes available, but you can also create your own custom colour themes. Custom themes allow you to define colours using HEX codes, making it easy to apply your organisation’s brand colours consistently. Once created, custom themes are available across all surveys and can be used on both results pages and boards.

You can also apply a theme from the page-level options to update colours across all charts on the page at once.

Other editing options

Within the edit panel, you can also:

hide specific answers or variables
switch axes to change how results are displayed
set a custom axis range instead of using automatic scaling
choose whether to display answers or subjects for grid and ranked questions

These options help refine charts for clarity and presentation.

Statistical Significance on charts

By default statistically significant changes will be highlighted with an up of down arrow, indicating a significant increase or decrease. You can toggle the statistical significance option at the top right to hide or show this on the charts. You can also adjust the confidence level and comparison column to suit your analysis needs.

Statistical significance in charts

Where applicable, charts can display indicators showing whether differences between segments or waves are statistically significant.

By default, statistically significant changes are shown using up or down arrows, indicating a meaningful increase or decrease compared to a reference point.

From the chart settings, you can:

show or hide statistical significance indicators
adjust the confidence level used
choose what results are compared against (for example, the previous wave)

Saving, sharing, and downloading charts

All chart settings are saved automatically. To share charts with others, we recommend saving them to a board. Boards can be shared via a link with colleagues who have an Attest account, as well as with external stakeholders. Boards can also be exported to PowerPoint for easy inclusion in reports and presentations.

On each individual chart, you can also: