What it is
Big Calendar lays out a month or year as a heat-tinted grid, with each day colored by your metric. It’s the dashboard equivalent of leaving a wall calendar open: instantly readable, no axis required.
What it does
Renders a full calendar grid (month or year), tints each day cell by a metric, supports tooltips, and cross-filters to the rest of the page.
Why use it
Time-of-week and time-of-year patterns jump out, the Tuesday slump, the Black Friday spike, the December lull.
Three ways teams use it
Ecommerce
Daily revenue colored across the year, holidays obvious.
Ops
Incident count per day in a year-at-a-glance heat layout.
HR
PTO calendar with team coverage at a glance.
Add it in 30 seconds
- Open your Data Studio report and click Add a chart → Community visualizations → Explore more.
- Paste the Viz Studio manifest URL or pick this chart from the Viz Studio gallery card.
- Bind the dimensions and metrics in the data panel. Done.
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