Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook

Chapter 6. Data Analysis and Visualization – Graphs

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Displaying both grid and graph in the same view
• Drag-and-drop objects using drop zones
• Beautify your chart
• Display multiple metrics with dual axis charts
• Conditional formatting with thresholds

Introduction

Charts have an importance equal, if not major, than reports. They are the first impression of our entire work: an appealing and clearly understandable image can engage the user and transmit a concept much faster than a grid. So, it is very important that, besides having done our homework and verified all the numbers, we create a simple yet effective graphical way of transmitting the information and getting the attention of the reader.

Creating graphs is not easy, at ...