Enough Pies, I’m Full!
In homage to the Thanksgiving celebration about to take place in the USA I thought I’d place a bet on what I think will be the most overused (and least useful) feature of PPS 2010 analytic reports.
Multiple pie charts!
Those who have used ProClarity will recognize this multi-pie functionality. See how easily you can determine which of the clothing, bikes and components categories sold the most in CY 2008?
I believe that pie charts were included in PPS 2010 as a “required feature” by the sales team. If you listen carefully to some of the PPS team members as they present the latest features you can hear a slight tinge of cynicism in their voices as they say “oh yeah, we support pie charts now too…”
So I ask you, what’s better than a single pie chart?
4 comments:
Clearly your coding did not take into account Stephen Few's opinion of pie charts. The code should have been:
DECLARE
@PieCounter INT = 2,
@EnoughPies INT = 10
PRINT 'One pie chart on a dashboard is bad enough'
WHILE @PieCounter <= @EnoughPies
BEGIN
IF (@PieCounter = 10)
PRINT 'A dashboard with 10 pie charts! It must have been designed by Boris Evelson!'
ELSE
PRINT CONVERT(VARCHAR(2), @PieCounter) + ' pie charts are even worse'
SET @PieCounter += 1
END
PRINT ''
PRINT 'Pie charts really make me sick!'
If you want a laugh, read Stephen's vitriol on Boris Evelson at http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=637
Thanks for the code improvement Dr John :)
So what you need there is some variable scaling on your pie charts to show relative sales. Would it then become a bubble-pie chart? Or a pie-bubble chart? Maybe you could have a flag sticking up from the centre of each pie with a number on it showing the total pie-size?
*chuckle*
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