Tuesday, May 5, 2009

OBIEE Bubble chart

First of all from a visual design stand point they are horible! Why? You are comparing 5 sources of data on a 2D surface. Most people already have problems interpreting a 3D graph. Anyway let's give it a try:

Let's start with a basic report:

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It gives two dimensions (Brand & Market), two measures (Revenue and Revenue Yago), there comparision (Revenue Yago / Revenu)

The OBIEE buble chat has 5 elements:

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image : X-axis

image : Y-axis

image : Dimension 1

image : Dimension 2 (optional)

image : Comparison value

This would give us:

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Resulting in this chart:

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On a personal note I find this a horrible chart....

If your really need this much info at once try splitting it into two graphs:

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Till Next Time

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