Skip to main contentThe Visualize gem doesn’t perform any data transformations. Instead, it marks a point in your pipeline where you want to capture data to display in an analysis dashboard. This gem lets you report data outcomes without having to materialize the data in your data warehouse or another data storage location.
The Visualize gem passes through input data exactly as is.
Parameters
Open the Visualize gem configuration and select the analysis to add the data to.
There are other ways to accomplish this, depending on your workflow:
- When building the analysis, you can choose any existing Visualize gem from the pipeline for data integration components.
- As you chat with the Prophecy Agent, you can prompt it to add the data from the Visualize gem to an analysis.
In all cases, the Visualize gem must be present in the pipeline.
Data persistence
Because the Visualize gem does not persist or materialize data, you must run the analysis (running the pipeline) to populate data components in the dashboard. The data isn’t saved anywhere. To persist data without running the pipeline, use a Table gem instead of a Visualize gem. This way, Prophecy writes the data to your data warehouse and can use that table as the source for the dashboard.
Evaluate your use case to determine whether it’s more beneficial to materialize the data (higher storage cost) or run the pipeline each time (higher compute cost). 
