Getting Started

In this section:

For detailed information on getting started with Visual Discovery Workbench AE, see WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Analyst Edition Getting Started Guide.


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WebFOCUS Visual Discovery AE in Action

This Page consists of 4 charts showing sales order data:

Correlate

With the mouse, sweep an area in the Scatter Plot (draw a rectangle with the Left Mouse Button depressed); this represents the high sales orders. The corresponding subpopulations in the other charts are highlighted, showing which regions these sales occurred in and how they were distributed across time. The selected portion of the Regional Sales Pie Chart is not evenly distributed; this shows that the selected population differs in geographical distribution from the overall population. North America and Europe are strongly represented, but other regions have lower amounts than would be expected. Also note the Quarterly Sales Bar Chart; the last 4 quarters had rising sales, but for the highlighted populations, sales have been declining for the last 3 quarters.

Iterate

Exclude unselected items (via the Right Mouse Menu context menu item "Exclude Unselected" or the "Selection" toolbar) top focus on just this subset.

Select just the most recent two quarter in the Quarterly Sales Bar Chart. For these two quarters, the Regional Sales Pie Chart is dominated by North America and Europe again. There is no obvious pattern in the Sales versus Discount Scatter Plot. So, the decline in sales in the two recent quarters reflects a lack of sales in certain regions, but this lack of sales isn't due to differences in sales or discounting.

Identify

Focus on the highlighted population by excluding the unselected items again. Note the very small amount of sales represented by regions other than Europe and North America.

Point at a single order in the Sales versus Discount Scatter Plot to investigate that particular order. The items corresponding to that focus item is highlighted in each chart, showing the exact sales and discount for that item, its region (Europe), and it Quarter (2003/3Q). The top line of the bottom Data Sheet is this item, and shows all of the other detail information available.

Share Results and Export

Images can be saved to the clipboard or published as part of a document, including a PDF, Microsoft Word document, or Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Selected data items can be exported as a result set to a text file, spreadsheet, or Business Objects Report for further action.


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Mutual Funds Example

Action

Description

Introduction and Setup

  • Start the Publisher

  • Choose New Project
  • Mouse over Task tab
  • Push the pin on the Task Panel to keep it visible

The Task Panel has a simple step-by-step process for bringing in data, designing Pages, interacting with and analyzing data, and sharing results.

Step 1: Load Data

  • Tasks: New Data Source
  • Welcome to the WebFOCUS Visual Discovery AE Data Wizard.

We will now load a text file with approximately 1,800 mutual funds. We will use this wizard to make life easy.

Restore Excluded. Restore and display all excluded elements. The state of other visible items is unchanged.

Undo. Remove the previous action.

Caution: This may be slow or inoperative with large data sets.

Redo. Return to the state reversed by a previous use of "Undo".

Caution: This may be slow or inoperative with large data sets.


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