Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 1 ADVIZOR Tips

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 2 Visuals > Perspectives > Dashboards ADVIZOR Visuals ADVIZOR Perspectives ADVIZOR Dashboards 12 visual components solve any data display need Combinations of Visuals that address specific business issues Combinations of Perspectives that address the performance needs of a business unit

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 3 The Dashboard Perspectives (pages) Tools and Tool Bar Visuals

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 4 Tools and Tool Bar Allows you to reset the project Allows you to export the project as an Adobe PDF file Allows you to export the project to Microsoft Word Allows you to share the project as a web archive Allows you to select all Allows you to Unselect all Allows you to Toggle the selection Excludes the Selected Excludes Unselected Restores the excluded Shows where you are Shows colour legend Help!

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 5 Colour Overlay a dimension on top of all Visuals Useful for comparing Automatically propagates throughout all of the Visuals Findings: Able to see progression throughout the range of visuals Change to anything you wish to be coloured by Result: Complete – Blue Continuing – Green Fail – Yellow Unknown – Orange Withdrawn - Red

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 6 PAGES View different results throughout the different pages All filtering and colouring continue throughout the pages. With the different pages you are able to see different trends and patterns. It allows you to see a range of different visuals on the population you have selected.

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 7 Visuals 12 Available Visuals

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 8 Bar Chart Aggregates one or more metrics across the discrete values of a field and displays entities as bars Typically used for filtering, correlation, trending across subpopulations Commonly used features –Weighting By another field’s values By the average of another field’s values By the ratio of two other fields –Stacked colors –Bar ordering –Zoom and pan –Orientation –Goal lines –Normalization –Animation –Change Fonts and Titles

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 9 Spine Plot Allows you to see things as a % The Height of the bar giving you the size of the population The length of the bar giving you the % of the selected.

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 10 Pie Chart Aggregates one or more metrics across the discrete values of a field and displays entities as wedges in a pie Typically used to see relative proportions of values in a field –For example, proportion of sales from the USA Commonly used features –Weighting By another field’s values By the average of another field’s values By the ratio of two other fields –Stacked colors –Wedge ordering –Rotation –Explosion –Animation control –Change Fonts and Titles –3-D rendering

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 11 Map Displays data values plotted on a map Typically used to highlight a geographical dimension in the data –Often used to show relationships between geographical elements (e.g., air traffic between cities) Commonly used features –Images in bitmap and/or vector form –Display as Globe –Map node size, node height, link thickness to a metric –Map color, node style, link style to a dimension –Directional links –Zooming –Rotation –Customize labels

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 12 Colour Overlay a dimension on top of all Visuals Useful for comparing Automatically propagates throughout all of the Visuals Findings: Able to see progression throughout the range of visuals Change to anything you wish to be coloured by Result: Complete – Blue Continuing – Green Fail – Yellow Unknown – Orange Withdrawn - Red

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 13 Colour Changing colour gives you a different view of the data Finding: All students studying at PCET Centers are from the School of Education and Training Colour by School All visuals broken up into the school colours Colour by HESA Level All visuals broken up into the school to show either Full-time students and Part-time students Finding: School of Humanities has very few PT students

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 14 ADVIZOR Dashboards Linked Perspectives Product Perspective Product Trends Perspective …Linked by Color

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 15 ADVIZOR Dashboards Selecting Select by clicking Select by sweeping Select by ctrl Click (as with MS) Alt click to see results

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 16 ADVIZOR Dashboards Linked Perspectives Product Perspective Product Trends Perspective …Linked by Selection

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 17 Filtering (Exclusion) Isolate what’s important, i.e., drill into an area of interest Automatically propagates throughout all of the Visuals Select area of interest (Students completing and continuing). Do this by simply sweeping over the areas of interest with the mouse. Filter to only show the criteria selected Filter out using the ‘Exclude Unselected’ button. Filtering can also be done using the ‘Exclude Selected’ button.

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 18 ADVIZOR Dashboards Linked Perspectives Product Perspective Product Trends Perspective …Linked by Filtering

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 19 Drilling Drill down to see finer detail of the results Once a school is selected, and the others filtered out You can then drill down to see department level, then again to programme and again to programme number if you wish

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 20 Resetting You can reset the project by either: 1.Restoring excluded 2.Selecting all

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 21 Results Sharing and Export Export these transactions (our “result set”) to text file, Excel, Business Objects Reporting, etc. for Action Save/publish images to clipboard, PowerPoint, etc. for results sharing Capture images, save result set of your analysis

Planning and Statistics ADVIZOR TRAINING PLANNING AND STATISTICS V.1 22 Good Practice In order to maximise your productivity using Advizor it is important to know what you are going to query. Therefore before starting a series of analysis ensure you: –Know what analysis you want to complete Where you are going to start What results you expect to see What steps you are going to take to get your result –Write down your selection criteria i.e. What population you wan to use e.g. Undergraduate students only Full-Time Undergraduates New Students….