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SSRS Chart
Anatomy 101
Angel Abundez
Business Intelligence Consultant
DesignMind
Angel Abundez
• Business Intelligence Consultant, DesignMind
• Microsoft Business Intelligence
• ASP.NET
• SharePoint
• Worked with SQL Server since 2007
• SSWUG BI Author
• Co-Lead, Bay Area MS BI User Group
Goals
• Decompose a Chart to its components
• Identify trends in Visualization
• Microsoft improves defaults with each release
• Sales Target Chart (Correlation Bar Chart)
• Sales Trend Chart (Time-Series Line Chart)
• Interactive Charts (1 click Filter & Highlight)
• Actions and SSRS Expressions
Improved Visualization in 2008 R2
• White Chart Area
• Light Grid Lines
• No Black borders
• Condensed menu
Even Better DataViz in Power View
• No borders
• No legend
• No Axis titles
• Light Title Colors
• No gradients
• Built-In Click Actions
• 1 click Filter & Highlight
Even Better DataViz in Power View
Power View Design Tenents
• Less is more
• Easy for the user
• 2 clicks to ROI
• 1 way to do things
Visualization Tips
• Use light Grid lines, if at all
• No black borders. Save the Ink!
• Use new Titles or Custom Positioning. Don’t overlap.
• Lighten your text
• Widen your bars for legibility
• Space between bars isn’t always necessary.
• Area charts should use Background Pattern of
“Percent50”
Keep Visualization in Mind
1. Group the Data
2. Sequence the Data
3. Prioritize the Data
Stephen Few(2004) Show Me the Numbers
Decompose a Chart
Legend(s)
Title(s)
Chart Area(s)
Horizontal Axis
Vertical Axis
Series
Grid Lines
Axes Titles
Decompose a Chart
• Demo – Creating a Chart
Interval Scales
• Nominal
• Category Groups have no logical order and no connection with each other. ie. Departments
• Ordinal
• Category Groups don’t have close connection with one another, but they do have order. ie. “First, Second, Third” or “Small, Medium, Large
• Interval
• Category Groups are interrelated and have logical order. ie. Months, Quarters, Years
Demo
• Monthly Sales Target
• Yearly Sales Time-Series
• Product Dashboard (1-click Highlight & Filter)
If you don’t know, now you
know… • Custom Positioning
• Interval = 1
• Strip Lines
• Docking in and out of the Chart Area
• New Titles
• New Chart Areas
• Background Pattern
• Export to PDF
Keep in Touch!
Keep in touch!
• Twitter: @AngelStreamline
• Email: [email protected]
• Website/Blog: angelsbiblog.com
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