The Ribbon Chart is no different than the other visuals we just worked with; it is good at viewing data over time. What makes Ribbon Charts effective though is their ability at showing rank change; the highest range or value is always displayed on the top for each of the time periods. The chart also does have a unique visual flowing appeal to it that is different than the other visuals. Let's take a look that the Ribbon Chart.
Let's look at, setting up the visual:
- Select the Ribbon Chart to add as a new visual, and resize it to take up a quarter of the report canvas.
- For the Axis area, lets choose the Date field from the Date (Order) table so that we have a hierarchy available for drilldown.
- The next field we will add to ...