Showing change across any dimension using a play axis can be a very effective exercise to draw attention to the magnitude of change along with patterns and anomalies. The following examples illustrate the play axis over the line, bar, and map charts.
At first glance, the recent examples posted with Vitaracharts of European Champions League Winners, Global Weather data, and American Airlines Traffic data might seem like they have nothing in common. And yet, in all three cases, the use of custom markers has been a very simple and highly effective method to communicate with the information with end-users. Industry and context-sensitive markers can be created and uploaded by end-users to all Vitaravisuals. For more details refer to https://docs.vitaracharts.com/guideCommonFeatures/dataMarkers.html
The entire world is waiting with bated breath for a vaccine to the COVID pandemic. The dashboard below illustrates the various vaccine efforts worldwide and their stages of progress. Created using MicroStrategy and Vitaracharts.
RTL is used for displaying languages that go from Right to Left, eg Hebrew and Arabic. Vitaracharts for Microstrategy offers RTL support for grids as well as Menus to give a seamless experience to the end-user. To turn on RTL for any visualization, select EDIT->Apperance->Select Right to Left . A quick demo below showcases the features of RTL Grid from Vitaracharts
A Barcode plot is a good chart to show the distribution of data in a table and to highlight individual values. The following post walks thru the steps to build a Barcode plot using Vitaracharts for MicroStrategy.
MicroStrategy Report Services Documents or RSDs as they popularly known continue to be used extensively by customers for picture perfect documents . They also have several features like Panels, Links , View Filters etc that are not available in the Visual Insights (VI) ad-hoc exploration tool for creating dashboards. As a result while VI is popular for data exploration RSDs continue to be the go to option for creating pre-
defined documents , landing pages and other use cases for end user BI delivery for enterprises.
MicroStrategy Mobile is an extremely popular method to deliver content to executives . Therefore the ability showcase custom visualizations to convey key information effectively becomes very important. VitaraCharts has addressed this issue. The library of 20+ visualizations have been designed and tested for Visual Insights as well Report Services Documents on both web and mobile . This makes it seamless for users to display information for ad-hoc analysis, web documents or mobile dashboards.
