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 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 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.
In order to view analyses, you must have:
A MicroStrategy Report Services product license
Web Analyst privileges
The Web Visual Insight and Execute Document or Analysis privileges
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
Filtering the data in an analysis by selecting attribute elements or metric values.
Displaying the data in a graph, such as a bar graph or pie chart, to easily grasp the relationships between data
Displaying the data in an interactive visualization, such as a Heat Map or Graph Matrix
Quickly switching between different visual representations of the data
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