Adding a Single Score to a Score Card
You can add a single value, for example a simple count, mean, sum or standard deviation, to a Score Card.
Procedure
- From the ribbon bar, select
.
- Flip the score card to display the configuration settings then drag the
Single Score tool to the
Scores area
. A new single score is added to the
Scores area, which can be configured as follows:
- Title:The name displayed against the score.
- Background: The background color of the score on the Score Card.
- Measure : How the score is calculated. You can configure this field by clicking the icon on the right to display the standard Measure screen
- Flip the score card back.
- Drag a column from the database, for example 'Units sold', and hover over the workspace. You will see that several tabs are displayed on which you can drop the column to create a 'single score'. For example:
As illustrated above, the tabs that are displayed will be a subset of the following, depending on the type of column that you are dropping.
- Add Sum: For a numeric column this will calculate the total of all values in the column, for example a sum of 'Order Profit'.
- Add Count: Provides a count of the records that the column contains, for example a count of 'Order Number' will give a total of all the orders in a specified time period (as defined by a row axis).
- Add Average: Calculates the mean of the values in the selected column, for example, an average of 'Order Profit'.
- Add Chart: Creates a compressed chart of the dragged column. See the Score Chart tool for further detail.
- Split Scores: Adds a row axis so that you can break down your score card by a suitable dimension, for example
Region,
Month, or
GenderDropping the column will automatically calculate the selected value. For example:
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