
Tips Recipes Brio 2002
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Section Type: Pivot section (yes, the pivot section)
Tip Name: Demographic Analysis
Purpose / Use: To graphically display trends of average values in an organization over
time or across different groups.
Sample File: Demographics.bqy
Steps to Produce: What appears as a simple chart may in fact require some imagination to
set up. In this case, preliminary work includes building a Computed
Item to transform the data into useable form, and then building the
analysis as a Pivot first. We then convert the Pivot to a Chart.
1) In the Results section, create a Computed Item. Call it Months Since Last Promotion, and
define its formula to be:
MONTHS_BETWEEN ( Today, Last_Promotion_Date )
2) Insert a new Pivot. Add the category as the left-side label, and the analysis grouping as the
top label. Place the new Computed Item (Months Since Last Promotion, in our example) in
as the data element.
3) Right-click on the data column and select Data Function from the speed menu. Change the
data function to be Average.
4) On the Brio main menu, select Insert | Chart This Pivot.
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