Creating Gauges

In order to create a gauge, it is necessary to click on the desired measure and select the visualization type as a gauge:

There are the following types of gauges:

The field “Goal” defines the measure which will be used as a target in data analysis. By default it is empty. If we don’t select a measure in the “Goal” field, the analysis is done relatively to the fact measure (in our case this is “Internet Order Quantity”).

Let us select the measure “Reseller Order Quantity” in the field “Goal”:

The next step will be to select the “Goal”:

Then select the way how the label will be rendered:

And set the value of  “X”:

By default the application offers its own scale, but the user can override the value of the minimum and maximum:

As a result of the selected parameters we will get the visualization with the icon on a gauge meaning the fact (Internet Order Quantity).  In the center of the gauge there is a label which displays the difference between fact and the goal:

As we can see on the pictures, the goal were not met in the years of  2015 and 2016.

There is one more type of the gauges called “Traffic lights”:

Select the traffic lights in the drop down:

There are two kinds of visualizations for the traffic lights. In this type of the gauge the parameters are similar to the previous one:  we can set the “Goal” if necessary. The difference is in the ranges which correspond to the color of the traffic lights.

Let us show the difference between the fact (Internet Order Quantity) and the goal (Reseller Order Quantity).  The negative value of % of the difference will be displayed using red color, the difference from 0% till 90% will be displayed using yellow color, values of more than 90% will be displayed with green. Let us set up the following parameters:

As a result, we will get the following report:

You can switch on or off displaying the values:

Gauges can be built using two more ways: using the context menu and the toolbar. When the context menu is used, you can select the way of visualization:

Here you can select the type of the gauge (circle, semicircle, etc.).

You can select the item “Visualization” from menu “Table”:

The dialog window “Visualization settings” will open:

In this window we have to select the fact measure, and then in the right part of the window select the type, goal and other parameters: