MicroStrategy ONE

Ask the Right Questions

By asking the right questions when using Auto Answers or a Bot, you can view the visualization types that best represent your data.

Analytic Type Visualization Keywords Key Component Sample Question
Ranking analysis

 

Bar chart

ranking

top/bottom + N

rank

sort

order

highest/lowest

leaderboard

  Show a leaderboard of Profit by Category.

Clustered or stacked bar chart

All the keywords mentioned above for a bar chart.

break by

key component (attribute/metric)

Break by attribute/metric

Show the top 10 Subcategory in Profit , break by and color by Category.

Trend analysis

 

Line chart

over time

over the past…

year over year

timeframe

Time attribute x 1

Show Units Sold over time.

Line chart with trend

All the keywords mentioned above for a line chart.

trend

Time attribute x 1

What is the trend for Units Sold ?

Multi-line chart

All the keywords mentioned above for a line chart

break by

key component (attribute/metric)

Time attribute x 1 and break by attribute/metric Show Revenue over time, break by Annapolis and New York.

Relationships

Bubble or scatter chart

relation

correlation

pattern

 

metric x 2

Show me the relationship between Profit Margin and Revenue at the Subcategory level in a bubble chart.

Location-based analysis Geospatial service (uses Mapbox) map geo attribute Show a map for Units Available by City.

Distribution analysis

Pie chart

distribution

proportion

percentages of

percentages against whole

compare to the total

fraction comparison

 

How does Units Sold in the top 10 cities compare to the total Units Sold?

Heat map

size by

group by

  Display a heat map with Store, sized by Revenue .

Descriptive statistics

(default)

Bar chart

If a question doesn’t fall into any above types and necessitates a response beyond mere text use the following keywords:

draw a

visualize

compare

show me

charts

show me a graph

 

Show me a graph for Revenue from each City.

Example Answers

The following examples display the answers to the questions asked in the table above.

Bar Chart

Clustered Bar Chart

Line Chart

Line Chart with Trend

Multi-line Chart

Bubble Chart

Geospatial Service (Mapbox)

Pie Chart

Heat Map

Bar Chart