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Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

You're reading from   Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Master Business Intelligence with Microstrategy 10

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884405
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Neil Mehta Neil Mehta
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Himani Rana Himani Rana
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Ning Ma Ning Ma
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Dmitry Anoshin Dmitry Anoshin
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Preface 1. Getting Started with MicroStrategy FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up an Analytics Semantic Layer and Public Objects 3. Building Advanced Reports and Documents 4. Advanced Visualization Techniques 5. Customization of MicroStrategy 6. Predictive Analysis with MicroStrategy 7. Accelerating Your Business with Mobile Analytics 8. Data Discovery with MicroStrategy Desktop 9. MicroStrategy System Administration 10. Design and Implementation of the Security Model 11. Big Data Analytics with MicroStrategy 12. MicroStrategy Troubleshooting

Basic visualization (graphs)


Graphs allow the user to analyze data quickly by providing a visual view of data. In MicroStrategy, there are a number of graph styles, such as vertical, polar, bubble and so on, depending on the user's needs. The following screenshot shows the types of graph in MicroStrategy:

These graphs can have further subtypes; a Vertical bar graph can be further divided into absolute, clustered, stacked, and so on:

Steps to add a graph are as follows:

  1. Open the document in design mode.

  2. Click INSERT | GRAPH and select the appropriate graph type.

Graph type selection depends on the number of objects in the report, as we cannot display the graphs until a certain number of attributes or metrics appear in the report. The following table displays the minimum number of objects needed for different types of graph:

One attribute, one metric - Vertical Line - Absolute graph

The following graphs displays the amount of revenue generated by various bike subcategories in 2005, on a monthly...

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