The model view

See every dataset and relationship at once, and let auto-detect propose the obvious ones.

The model view is a canvas of your datasets, drawn as cards with lines between related ones.

What it is for

  • Seeing the whole model at once, rather than one relationship at a time.
  • Creating a relationship by dragging from one column to another.
  • Spotting the two problems a list cannot show you: a dataset connected to nothing, and a relationship pointing at the wrong column.

Auto-detect

Auto-detect proposes relationships by scoring column names, types and how well their values actually overlap. It proposes — every suggestion is shown for review before anything is created, because a wrong relationship is worse than a missing one: a missing relationship refuses to build the chart, while a wrong one builds it and returns confident nonsense.

Layout

Card positions are saved, so the arrangement you make is the arrangement you return to. Group related tables together — a model laid out the way you think about the business is much easier to reason about than one laid out alphabetically.

The model view · ChartBase Docs