Author Archives: Ron Keler

Live HTML5 Medicare Dashboard – redux

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Ron Keler

Please checkout the latest updates to our live html5 medicare dashboard: http://blog.cleartelligence.com/data/topchart.html The latest version include sparklines and improved select menu UI… Compare the html5 version to the Xcelsius version (http://blog.cleartelligence.com/data/ma-enrollment-dashboard.html), and tell us what you think (of course, don’t … Continue reading →

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Tree menu with dynamic variable number of charts

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Ron Keler

A sophisticated data visualization UI often requires dynamic placement of elements on the screen. For example, menus may need to be data driven based on hierarchical data that can be ragged or unpredictable. In the example below, you can see … Continue reading →

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Animated layered charts

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Ron Keler

Over the last few weeks i have been working with my colleagues at Cleartelligence on our html5 businessobjects dashboarding offering, and boy, does it look good! I managed to surface up and get some air this evening, and thought i’d … Continue reading →

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Control the dashboard size in SAP BI Launchpad 4.0

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Ron Keler

Xcelsius dashboards developers who leverage the BI 4.0 BI Launchpad as the content portal for delivering their work, have long suffered from the sloppy interface between Xcelsius and the portal. First (and foremost), when you publish an Xcelsius or dashboard … Continue reading →

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Webi Refresh on open in 4.0

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Ron Keler

I never quite understood why webi reports save with data by default. Since almost all usage scenarios of webi i have ever encountered involve either viewing reports on demand, or viewing the last scheduled instance, leaving data saved on reports … Continue reading →

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Google visualization donut chart

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Ron Keler

While working on an iPad compatible version for our healthcare enrollment dashboard, i wrote about utilizing google visualization API charts. One of the chart types we utilized in Xcelsius was a donut chart, and while the google visualization library doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Xcelsius Flight Seat Order models visualized

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Ron Keler

On a recent international flight I had a chance to ponder how much the order of seating passengers really impact the amount of time it takes to get all the passengers seated. On one flight, the crew called passengers to … Continue reading →

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Live poll using Xcelsius

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Ron Keler

Which phone do you like best? iPhone? Android? Blackberry? The example below integrates several techniques to come up with an interesting concept: an Xcelsius based live poll. This sample integrates Xcelsius with ajax to store your vote in the database … Continue reading →

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Dynamically resizing images in Xcelsius

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Ron Keler

It is sometime useful o be able to dynamically change an image size in Xcelsius, based on user inputs for example, or on a data variable that changes live, or as a result of user input. Xcelsius components, except for … Continue reading →

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Xcelsius bubbles

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Ron Keler

Not much to say about this one, i just really like bubbles… Using bubble charts in Xcelsius can be very appealing.  

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