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Real-Time Access to SaaS Data
IntroductionData stored in SaaS applications is often inaccessible to BI tools. This is a major headache to early adopters of SaaS applications. With on-premise applications, IT departments can bypass the application and access data directly from...
Animated Data Visualization
Animation for the sake of catching the viewer's eye without adding information can quickly become an annoyance. However, when used correctly, animation can greatly improve the visualization by increasing the information density.A great use of...
Broadening the Reach of Self-Service BI
The necessity of self-service is obvious once you realize that traditional BI has limited reach within user communities. For example, BI dashboards are typically tailored to the needs of decision makers and leave out a broader group of analytically-...
2012 Presidential Elections Popular Vote
The following chart is a good example of displaying diverging data using color. We set “50%” as the neutral point and show higher values in one color and lower values in another color. We show “50%” as white and the color gets darker as values...
Visualizing Data Correlation Using an XY Chart
The XY chart is great for visualizing relationships between numerical data and finding correlations. Data can be presented as a scatter plot or a bubble chart. Let’s start with a scatter plot using an example.Our example is based on a table of crime...
