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Effective Data Presentation, Part I: Don't Make Them Think!

The primary goal of data presentation is to facilitate decision-making by helping people interpret data correctly and efficiently. To accomplish this, designers must use presentation methods that are accurate and clear—and that focus attention on the most significant results. This session explains how the brain decodes visual data and helps you select the most straightforward, compelling layouts for dashboards and graphs. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls that inhibit comprehension and lead to incorrect conclusions and faulty decisions. Includes highlights from Edward Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" and Stephen Few's "Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data".

Effective Data Presentation, Part II: Examples

More by popular demand...This presentation, given at the 2007 Business Objects® Americas User Conference, contains several examples of data design layouts and discusses how they could be improved. A few graphic design principles are also examined.

Note: Come back in November for an enhanced collection of Before & Afters.

Catching the Next Wave of the Business Intelligence Movement

Each and every day, organizations are increasing their use of business intelligence to improve performance and reduce costs. BI systems are no longer nice to have, but are essential to business success. These systems are being used not only for strategic
planning, but also for driving day-to-day business operations. To keep your BI knowledge up to date, come explore three specific emerging technologies in the BI industry: XBRL, XMLA, and RDL. Gain an understanding of these technologies and their value propositions, and hear about other trends appearing at many “early-adopter”
companies today that are likely to become mainstream in the future. Presented at the 2004 International Business Objects® User Conference.

All or Any Prompt

This document describes how to create a predefined condition object which will allow the user to select from a list of values or automatically select all values in the list.

Alternate Row Shading

This document describes how to set up your BusinessObjects® report so that every other line is shaded, similar to old style computer paper. It is very useful for reports containing many columns of data.

Reset User Ids

This document describes a procedure for resetting BusinessObjects® User Ids by doing a direct update to the Repository Tables.

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