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Out of the box usage of ADF DVT Scheduling Gantt Chart to report Database Query Results using stacked bar charts per time period
0Gantt Charts in ADF are interesting components to visualize data that is organized according to time. The Gantt Charts have a horizontal time axis. In rows along the vertical axis, resources or tasks are displayed. The cells in this time/resource matrix represent information about the resource or the task at some point in time or more specifically: in some time period.
In this recent blog-article, I explained how we can use the Schedule Gantt chart to present results per resource per period using something closely resembling horizontal bar charts. The key thought is that when we present data associated with a standard period, we can use the Gantt Chart’s capability to set the length of the bar to express the size of the value in a specific period. More specifically: we can use the end date property to manipulate the length of the bar. This article we will take this one step further and create a Stacked Bar Chart for each resource for each period. In this case, I will present the number of Employees hired per Department per Year and do so using Stacked Bar Charts with segments per Job. The result – driven directly from SQL query in a read only ViewObject – looks like this:
We can More >
ADF DVT: Thinking out of the box with the Scheduling Gantt Chart – Reporting by Period, for example Football Results over the years
0In various recent articles (such as Drag and Drop in ADF DVT Schedule Gantt) I have discussed the ADF DVT Gantt Chart component. And in these articles I have been describing the Gantt Charts as they were intended. However, something compels me to go beyond what was intended at the initial conception of the component. Just because I can, if for no other reason. So I am going to do just that in this article.
A Gantt Chart is basically a matrix report. The horizontal axis represents time, the vertical axis represents tasks or resources and the cells or bars positioned on this time vs. resources grid present an allocation of sorts of the resource in time. The Resource Utilization Gantt in ADF DVT is a slight variation on the theme – and it is where I got some inspiration from. It does not take time as a continuum but rather divides time in periods (days, weeks, months, quarters, years etc.) and presents for each resource its utilization per period through vertical bars.
My improvisation no the theme is to take the Scheduling Bar Chart and do something similar: present data per period, only using horizontal bars. This not only provides me with yet another way of presenting data – which More >
ADF DVT Speed Date: Adding Drag & Drop to the Resource Schedule Gantt Chart to create a live presentation scheduler
0In a recent meeting of the AMIS ADF SIG we organized a speed date with six different DVT components (note: DVT == Data Visualization Tags, the library of rich data presentation component part of ADF). One of these components, the one that I represented during this speed date, is the Gantt Chart. This chart comes in three flavors, as I described in this article: http://technology.amis.nl/2013/02/16/adf-dvt-speed-date-meeting-the-gantt-charts/. These are the Resource Utilization Gantt Chart, the Project Gantt Chart (the archetypical Gantt Chart) and the Resource Scheduler (the most generic and flexible of the three).
In this earlier article introducing the Gantt Chart, I introduced the Resource Scheduler using the example of a Presentation Schedule that visualizes the agenda for a conference. The Resource in this case are the Rooms that holds the sessions and the chart contains bars plotted against a Room and the Time axis to represent all of the presentations:
In the article you are reading right now, I will explain how to create a Resource Schedule Gantt Chart such as the one shown here. Even more interesting, I will then explain how to add drag & drop capabilities to this chart More >
ADF DVT Speed Date: Present Metrics per Year, Quarter and Month using a zoom-enabled ADF DVT Resource Utilization Gantt and ADF BC
0The challenge I will address in this article is the following: I would like to provide a nice presentation of data aggregated by time period. For example: an overview of the number of employees that was hired in each year in each department (example is drawn from table EMP). The presentation could look like this:
To extend the challenge a little bit: I would like to be able to drill down. From the year level shown in this picture, to the Quarter level and even to the Month level. The Quarter level would look similar – but more fine grained:
This article shows how this challenge can be addressed using ADF DVT – Data Visualization components, more specially the Resource Utilization Gantt Chart. It will describe how ADF BC is used in conjunction with the SQL TRUNC function and a smart bind parameter to allow for dynamic zooming to different time aggregation levels. And the approach demonstrated in this article can easily be reused for other time based presentations.
ADF DVT Speed Date: Meeting the Gantt Charts
0Recently the ADF Special Interest Group at AMIS organized an ADF DVT Speed Date. During this speed date, six ADF specialists from our team presented their favorite Data Visualization Component from the DVT library. In a series of blog posts we share the information with a broader audience. In this post you get introduced to Gantt Charts – which was my own date for this party.
ADF DVT Gantt Chart – IntroductionThe probably most distinguishing feature of any Gantt Chart is the horizontal time axis. Gantt Charts are used to present data against time.
Gantt Charts were invented in the 1910s by Henry Gantt (hence the name) – although a Polish engineer probably beat him to it but forgot to blog about it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart). They were used initially for presenting Project Schedules – showing tasks with their start time and end time and their dependencies. The essence of many modern project management tools is in fact a Gantt Chart – frequently an interactive one.
ADF DVT provides this project- and task overview in a Gantt format. Two additional Gantt Charts are provided as well:
ADF DVT: Visualizing valid periods using Project and Scheduling Gantt Charts
0In a recent article – Advanced SQL to find valid periods – juggling with outer joins, running totals and analytical functions – I discussed how to use Analytical Functions in SQL to cleverly (!) derive the valid periods from a database table that contains periods of inclusion and exclusion. A valid period is a period for which there is at least one inclusion and for which there is no exclusion. I used several powerpoint based graphics to illustrate the business case. For example:
to depict the periods of inclusion and exclusion and this figure to demonstrate how to derive the valid periods (the blue bars):
After completing this article – and fiddling around in Powerpoint quite a bit – I realized that for visualizing data in a table, I have a perfect tool at my fingertips: the Data Visualization Tags (DVT) in ADF 11g are created for this very purpose: turning data into information through visualization. And this rich library of DVTs components contains – in addition to fairly straightforward visualizations such as bar charts, pie charts and line graphs – also more complex visualization components such as the Bubble Chart, Thematic Map and Gantt Chart. The Gantt Chart has three More >
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