When building a Metric Dimensionality Card in Fullstory, there is an option to change the sort order of the results displayed. This flexibility offers multiple ways of looking at your dimensionality data so that you can choose the option that best suits your needs.

Sort Options

High to low

High to low is the default sort option that queries for the top results and then arranges the dimension values in descending order where the highest aggregate values are at the top of the list and the lowest aggregate values are at the bottom of the list.

Low to high

Low to high is the sort option that queries for the smallest results and then arranges the dimension values in ascending order where the lowest aggregate values are at the top of the list and the highest aggregate values are at the bottom of the list.

Largest increase/decrease: # change

Largest decrease: # change and Largest increase: # change are sort options that compare the current dimension value to its past dimension value and orders the largest absolute change between the periods in descending order.

Largest decrease: # change will query for the top past results and then query the corresponding current values. Finally both results will be sorted as the past minus the current. 

Past value - Current value

Largest increase: # change will query for the top results and then subtract the past period values from the current period values.

Current value - Past value

Largest increase/decrease: % change

Largest decrease: % change and Largest increase: % change are sort options that compare the current dimension value to its past dimension value and orders the largest percentage change between the periods in descending order.

Largest decrease: % change will query for the top past results and get the corresponding current results. Then it will sort by the percentage change value of the past period subtracted from the current period then divided by the past period value. 

( Past value - Current value ) / Past value

Largest increase: % change will query for the top current results and get the corresponding past results. Then it will sort by the percentage change value of the past period subtracted from the current period then divided by the past period value.

( Past value - Current value ) / Past value

FAQs

Why am I seeing different results returned when sorting Low to high than the results returned when sorting High to low?

Low to high queries for the smallest results in the data set whereas High to low queries for largest results in the data set. Because there is a limit for the amount of results that can be returned within Fullstory, Low to high is showing the bottom most 50 results whereas High to low is showing the top most 50 results. If your data set is more than 100 values it is likely that the values returned will not overlap between these two sort options, thus showing different results.