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J.2. Bubble Plot - Advanced

There are two Bubble Plot configurations: Simple and Advanced. These

have been named with end-users in mind. The Advanced configuration is

so-called because it requires end-users to select up to four separate

indicators for the chart (x axis, y axis, bubble size, bubble colour). These

indicators can be changed independently by the end-user and you should

therefore only choose this configuration if you wish to give them a high

level of freedom for data exploration.

If you publish this configuration with a demonstration data file the report will

look like that in Figure 183.

Figure 183

There are four buttons for changing data: the indicator shown in the map

(this also controls the colour of bubbles in the chart), the indicator shown

on the X axis, the indicator shown on the Y axis and the indicator that

controls the size of the bubbles.

When using this configuration you may want to define certain minimum and

maximum axes values for the bubble plot component. You can define

these settings on an indicator or theme basis in the ‘Metadata’ worksheet

of your Excel workbook (or in the table ‘tblMetadata’ if you are working with

the Access Data Manager). The settings are the same that you would use

to fix the bar chart and/or time series chart (‘minChartValue’ and

‘maxChartValue’). Please see section ‘E.6.2.4. Setting the Chart Axis

Minimum and Maximum’ for further information.

While this configuration is advanced from the end-user point of view, it is

very simple from the point of view of the person creating the report. This is

because this configuration does not require any associates to be provided

in the data file(s).

Note that if you only want end-users to be able to plot three indicators

simultaneously, you can remove the ‘Size’ button by editing the

configuration file (config.xml) of the report using the Designer.