Chart Types
Tubient draws four kinds of chart, and picks the one that fits the metric so a rate is never squashed against a count and a snapshot is never forced onto a timeline. The line charts sit side by side at the top of the dashboard, and each snapshot panel sits beside them.
1. Growth Charts (Line)
Growth charts show how a count, a duration or an amount moves across your date range. They come from Temporal Nodes: views, subscribers, likes, comments, shares, engaged views, watch hours, average view duration and revenue.
- What it shows One line per metric, or one per video when a Filter is connected. Metrics of different size or unit are split across a left and right axis so a smaller one stays readable.
- Thumbnails Each video appears on the date it was published, with its thumbnail and title. Hover for the value of every line.
- Daily / Cumulative The toggle in this chart's header switches between discrete daily values and a running total. Cumulative lines are marked with ∑. Average view duration is always daily.
2. Percentage Charts (Line)
Rates such as click-through rate, average view percentage and conversion rate run from 0 to 100%, while views and watch hours run into the thousands. On one axis a 5% rate would be a flat line at the bottom, so every percentage line plots on its own chart beside the growth chart.
- What it shows One line per rate, or one per video. Rates of very different size, such as CTR next to average view percentage, get their own left and right axis.
- Same design The same video thumbnails, tooltip and date selection as the growth chart.
- No toggle A rate has no running total, so there is no Daily/Cumulative switch here and the growth toggle does not affect it.
3. Retention Chart (Audience Retention)
The retention chart is the one line chart that is not drawn against calendar dates. It plots how much of a single video's audience is still watching as the video plays, from the first second to the end. It comes from the Premium Node's Audience Retention tool and is marked Tubient Derived.
- What it shows One curve per video. The horizontal axis is how far through the video (0 to 100%), and the vertical axis is the share of viewers still watching.
- Comparing Every video is scaled to the same 0 to 100% length, so a 30-second Short and a 20-minute video overlay directly.
- No thumbnails or toggle There is no calendar date to anchor an upload marker to, so this chart has neither thumbnails nor a Daily/Cumulative switch.
4. Snapshot Charts (Bar/Pie)
Snapshot charts represent the "State of the Channel" for a given period. Unlike the line charts, these focus on proportions and categorical distribution. Each snapshot panel includes an independent toggle in its header, allowing you to flip between a Bar chart for precise value comparison and a Pie chart for understanding percentage share.
- Bar Categories ranked from highest to lowest, for reading exact values side by side.
- Pie Each category's share of the total. Very small slices are grouped into Other so the larger ones stay legible.
- Z-Score Z-Score panels are bar only and have no pie toggle, because a deviation from average is not a share of a whole.
Snapshot rendering is supported across three primary node categories:
Comparison Nodes compare performance metrics across multiple videos side-by-side, such as Likes Comparison or AVD Comparison.
Numeric Breakdown Nodes analyze structural dimensions of channel-wide data, such as Traffic Sources or Geography.
Premium (Paid) Nodes generate advanced cohort and benchmark visualizations, such as Watch Time Contribution or Shorts Feed Performance.
How current is your data?
Your charts refetch whenever you load a session or change the date range, but an answer in the chat was written from the data at the time you asked. Tubient keeps the two visibly linked, so you always know which period a figure describes and whether it still matches the chart.
- Data as of The label at the bottom right of the chart shows when the oldest data on your canvas was fetched, in your own timezone and always with the date, for example Data as of 13 Sep 08:05. Data served from your browser cache shows its real age, not the moment you opened the page.
- Measured Every answer that quotes figures states the dates they cover underneath it, for example Measured 19 Aug to 17 Sep, whether it is a full analysis or a quick reply after building a chart. A window covering your whole channel reads All time.
What "+1 window" means
Not every node on a canvas measures the same period, so a label can end in +1 window, +2 windows and so on. The label names the main period, the one your Date Range Node drives, and the number counts the other periods involved. You will see the same suffix on the Measured label, on a Superseded marker and in the Data refreshed notices.
The extra periods usually come from one of these:
- A breakdown of a group of videos starts on the earliest publish date in that group, because there is nothing to measure before the videos existed.
- An all-time list, such as your top videos of all time, covers your whole channel whatever the date range says.
- A node with its own date range, for example one the assistant built for a specific question.
Example: Data refreshed: 19 Aug to 17 Sep +1 window means your main period is now 19 Aug to 17 Sep, and one other node on the canvas covers a different period. An answer counts as out of date if any period it measured has left the canvas, not only the main one.
When an answer is superseded
Change the date range, and every earlier answer is marked Superseded, whether it was a full analysis or a quick reply after building a chart, with the period it covered shown on the line below. Its text stays at full strength and is never edited or deleted: it is still a correct statement about the period it covered, just not the one on your chart now.
- Straight after the change, a Data refreshed notice appears after your last message, for example Data refreshed: 19 Aug to 17 Sep. Earlier answers are out of date. If you switch back to the range an older answer was written for, that answer is current again, and the notice says only The latest answer is out of date.
- Once you ask again, the notice becomes a divider above your new question, marking where the newer figures begin.
- When you ask a follow-up, the assistant treats superseded figures as history. It quotes current figures from the chart, and only mentions an older figure, with its dates, when you ask what changed.
Same period, newer data
Some periods grow rather than move. An All time window, or one that starts on a fixed date, gains a day of data each day, so an answer about it keeps its Measured label and is not marked superseded. A rolling window such as the last 28 days moves its start every day, so if you reopen a session the next day, answers about the old 28 days are marked superseded.
Refreshing
To pull fresh data from YouTube, use the refresh button on the Date Range Node, or Refresh Session in the Cache panel (see Sessions & Persistence). Data as of updates when the reload finishes. Refreshing on the same day marks nothing superseded unless the dates themselves changed.