CHAPTER 5 USING CHARTS AND GRAPHS TO REPRESENT DATA

In this chapter

Choosing the Right Components for a Dashboard 128

Building on Your Visualizations 132

Viewing Grouped Data with Stacked Charts 135

Working with XY and Bubble Charts 141

Working with Tree Maps 148

Issues and Techniques Related to Scaling 150

Putting Visual Data Analysis into Focus 154

Closing Thoughts 154

One of the reasons dashboards are popular and successful is that they help you show information and relationships that would otherwise be difficult to see. It should come as no surprise that charts and graphs play a key—or even central—role in the preparation of dashboards.

The goal of this chapter is to introduce you to using charting components in Xcelsius 2008. ...

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