Report Services Document Analysis Guide - MicroStrategy

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4.EXPLORING YOUR DATA WITH
VISUAL INSIGHT ANALYSES
Introduction
A Visual Insight analysis is a customized, interactive display that you can use
to explore your business data. For example, you can sort and rearrange data
in an interactive grid, perform manipulations on the data to display only the
information that you are interested in, and display visual representations of
the data in the analysis to make the data easier to interpret. Analyses can be
viewed in the Analysis Editor, Express Mode, or Flash Mode in
MicroStrategy Web; or on an iPad with MicroStrategy Mobile.
An analysis displays data from an underlying dataset in a streamlined
interface designed to allow you to explore your data quickly and easily. Visual
representations of the data, called visualizations, are added by the designer
of the analysis and are stored in the analysis's definition.
Analyses allow you to explore your data in multiple ways, such as:
• Sorting and pivoting the data in an analysis to create a customized display
• Grouping the data in an analysis to easily work with large sets of data
• Displaying the data in a graph, such as a bar graph or pie chart, to easily
grasp the relationships between data
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