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Visuals > Perspectives > Dashboards

ADVIZORVisuals

ADVIZORPerspectives

ADVIZORDashboards

12 visual

components

solve any

data display

need

Combinations ofVisuals

that addressspecific

businessissues

Combinations of

Perspectives

that address the

performance needs

of a business unit

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The DashboardPerspectives (pages)

Tools and Tool Bar

Visuals

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Tools and Tool Bar

Allows you to reset the project

Allows you to export the project as an Adobe PDF file

Allows you to export the project to Microsoft Word

Allows you to share the project as a web archive

Allows you to select all

Allows you to Unselect all

Allows you to Toggle the selection

Excludes the Selected

Excludes Unselected

Restores the excluded

Shows where you are

Shows colour legend

Help!

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Colour• Overlay a dimension on top of all Visuals• Useful for comparing• Automatically propagates throughout all of the Visuals

Findings: Able to see progression throughout the range of visuals

Change to anything you wish to be coloured by

Result: Complete – Blue

Continuing – GreenFail – Yellow

Unknown – OrangeWithdrawn - Red

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PAGES

View different results throughout the different pages

All filtering and colouring continue throughout the pages. With the different pages you are able to see different trends and

patterns. It allows you to see a range of different visuals on the population you have selected.

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Visuals

Bar Chart

Count

DataConstellation

ParaboxMultiscape

Scatterplot

Line Chart

Histogram

Data SheetPie Chart

Time Table

Map

• 12 Available Visuals

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Bar Chart• Aggregates one or more metrics across

the discrete values of a field and displays entities as bars

• Typically used for filtering, correlation, trending across subpopulations

• Commonly used features– Weighting

• By another field’s values• By the average of another field’s values• By the ratio of two other fields

– Stacked colors– Bar ordering– Zoom and pan– Orientation– Goal lines– Normalization– Animation– Change Fonts and Titles

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Spine Plot• Allows you to see things as a %• The Height of the bar giving you the size of the

population• The length of the bar giving you the % of the

selected.

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Pie Chart• Aggregates one or more metrics across the

discrete values of a field and displays entities as wedges in a pie

• Typically used to see relative proportions of values in a field– For example, proportion of sales from

the USA• Commonly used features

– Weighting• By another field’s values• By the average of another field’s values• By the ratio of two other fields

– Stacked colors– Wedge ordering– Rotation– Explosion– Animation control– Change Fonts and Titles– 3-D rendering

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Map

• Displays data values plotted on a map• Typically used to highlight a geographical

dimension in the data– Often used to show relationships

between geographical elements (e.g., air traffic between cities)

• Commonly used features– Images in bitmap and/or vector

form– Display as Globe– Map node size, node height, link

thickness to a metric– Map color, node style, link style to

a dimension– Directional links– Zooming– Rotation– Customize labels

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Colour• Overlay a dimension on top of all Visuals• Useful for comparing• Automatically propagates throughout all of the Visuals

Findings: Able to see progression throughout the range of visuals

Change to anything you wish to be coloured by

Result: Complete – Blue

Continuing – GreenFail – Yellow

Unknown – OrangeWithdrawn - Red

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Colour• Changing colour gives you a different view of the data

Finding: All students studying at PCET Centers are from the School of Education and Training

Colour by SchoolAll visuals broken up into the

school colours

Colour by HESA LevelAll visuals broken up into the

school to show either Full-time students and Part-time students

Finding: School of Humanities has very few PT students

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ADVIZOR DashboardsLinked Perspectives

Product Perspective

Product Trends Perspective

…Linked by Color

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ADVIZOR DashboardsSelecting

Select by clicking

Select by sweeping

Select by ctrl Click (as with

MS)

Alt click to see results

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Product Perspective


…Linked by Selection

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Filtering (Exclusion)

• Isolate what’s important, i.e., drill into an area of interest

• Automatically propagates throughout all of the VisualsSelect area of interest (Students completing and continuing). Do this by simply sweeping over the areas of interest with the mouse.

Filter to only show the criteria selected

Filter out using the ‘Exclude Unselected’ button.

Filtering can also be done using the ‘Exclude Selected’ button.

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Product Perspective


…Linked by Filtering

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Drilling

• Drill down to see finer detail of the results

Once a school is selected, and the others filtered out

You can then drill down to see department level, then again to programme and again to programme number if you wish

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Resetting• You can reset the project by either:

1. Restoring excluded 2. Selecting all

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Results Sharing and ExportExport these transactions (our “result set”) to text file, Excel,

Business Objects Reporting, etc. for Action

Save/publish images to clipboard, PowerPoint, etc. for

results sharing

Capture images, save result set of your analysis

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Good Practice

• In order to maximise your productivity using Advizor it is important to know what you are going to query. Therefore before starting a series of analysis ensure you:– Know what analysis you want to complete

• Where you are going to start• What results you expect to see• What steps you are going to take to get your result

– Write down your selection criteria i.e. What population you wan to use e.g.• Undergraduate students only• Full-Time Undergraduates• New Students….

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