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C H A P T E R 15
Embedded Visualizations
An embedded visualization, as the name suggests, is a visualization that is
contained within some other content—typically, this
table of data
will be that
most widely used of visualizations. Indeed, this topic has made extensive use
of this approach in the tables contained within every chapter, with indicators
showing the ease of implementation. It is also possible to do these visualiza-
tions within a flow of text or perhaps within an application—but they are much
less common. An example of an indicator embedded within an application
is shown in Figure 15-1.
In this case, the indicators are being used as buttons that can be clicked on
to set a status.
Common uses for embedded visualizations include high-
lighting problems such as highly divergent numbers that
are likely to be a data-capture error, and ranking of various
numbers such as all the stores within a region. Covered
much more extensively in Chapter 10, indicators showing
achievement against a target are another form of embed-
ded visualization. Another great use is the ability to show
multiple small charts, thereby allowing for a great deal of
data to be displayed on a single page.
In this chapter, we will focus on the traditional tabular
embedded visualizations—formatting of the table itself,
embedding charts within cells in a table, and conditional
formatting of cells according to value. You will also read
about indicators and a specific type of embedded chart
called a bullet graph.
FI g u R e 15 -1
Visualizations embedded in an
application
