As I continue to explore the potential of Inovista’s XY Chart, I have created a product rating/comparison chart. Similar to my population pyramid example, you can use this add-in to create lines between points that can’t be accomplished with out-of-the-box functionality.
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As I work to perfect standardized templates as a starting point for my dashboarding projects, I’ve decided that drop-down menus would be really helpful and could look more professional if executed well.
While I like the slide-out capabilities of the label based menus, they don’t allow you to have nested menus. Here is my first attempt at creating nested menus using OotB functionality. Please feel free to provide feedback!
Due to popular demand, I have included the XLF file. Jumping from one top-level menu to another would be better if it could reset. This shouldn’t be impossible, but I haven’t researched this yet.
After the 2011 Strata Dashboard Competition, I’ve had a lot of requests to post a sample of the ‘trivial pursuit’ chart in Xcelsius. I’m combining this tutorial with how to create a multi-level pie chart since they basically use the same technique. Click on the image below to launch the tutorial.
Having some fun with Xcelsius GUI design and working with partially transparent images. Do people prefer mixing in some graphics into their dashboards or the completely clean look and feel like Tableau?
This is one of my older templates that I have revamped to work correctly with the latest version of Flash. The graphics are done with SWF files versus PNGs in the original.
Here is another go with the Inovista XY Chart add-in. A while back Kalyan Verma from MyXcelsius.com asked me about duplicating Gapminder functionality in Xcelsius. While I was able to make a crude example using stock components, I was very excited to try it again with this add-in. Just the fact that you can make the bubbles much larger is great. Combine that with multiple active triggers (both mouseover and on-click) and customizable tooltips … well, you be the judge!
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I’ve been working with the XY Bubble Chart with Lines add-in from Inovista and it is really amazing! It allows you to connect non-linear points and also to create charts with transparent bubbles (BonaVista Systems Style). I have created a quick population pyramid / tornado chart using the add-in to address Jorge Cameo’s blog posts on Xcelsius functionality from back in October 2007 (See blog post here).
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The following link is to my work in progress for the 2011 Strata Data Visualization Competition.
I’m working on some new techniques utilizing an interactive matrix. The following example uses overlapped XY charts to deliver individual labels but still allow for the bubbles to control a single input. I feel like it needs some work to better show which bubble is actively highlighted.
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Today’s template is a simple total quality management (TQM) / Six Sigma dashboard. It is very straight forward and I haven’t incorporated any interactivity yet. The control chart is comprised of two charts (Line chart w/ alerts, and an Area chart).
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