In this way, the user can easily change measures
on the fly. Finally, right-clicking also shows an option called Perspective Wizard
which simply runs the wizard again, allowing for other choices to be made.
It??™s important to note that this example selected the individual products but all
other dimensions were left at their default values. However, nothing prevents the
user from selecting members from multiple dimensions. For example, the user might
choose individual products in the Product dimension and individual countries in the
Geography dimension. In fact, the user could do something as detailed as individual
products and individual customers, but this could produce thousands of data points
and might be hard to analyze even in the perspective chart. In addition, all queries
so far in this chapter have taken no more than a few seconds on the my admittedly
underpowered virtual machine. A query of all customers and all products, however,
takes over ten minutes before the machine runs out of memory. Most users who ask
Figure 6-50 After setting data point attributes, the user can now more easily identify the
product categories with the highest profits and the highest margins.
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for such granular detail will soon discover that just because they can ask for so much
information doesn??™t mean they should.
The Performance Map The Performance Map, sometimes called a heat map, is an
advanced chart type that fits all of its data into a rectangle.
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