ACE Analytics About Analysis

The basic purpose of this application is to let you see your data, so that you can understand it.

ACE Analytics lets you see your data as tables and charts, in a variety of arrangements. It allows you to perform a wide range of activities with your data, including sorting, grouping, and filtering it.

In the example anaylysis above, both a table and a chart are displayed.

The Analysis Grid displays a set of panels. The Controls Panel, at the top, includes a set of tabs that allow you to manipulate the data and visualizations. The visibility of specific controls is configured by the application developer and so you may or may not see the full set shown here.

When a tab is clicked, a configuration panel for that feature appears, as shown above. Clicking it again hides the panel.

Visualization Panels, shown above, contain either a data table, crosstab table, or chart. Panels can be collapsed or expanded using the "+" and "-" icons. You can also rearrange their order by clicking with your mouse near the top of a panel, and dragging it up or down.

Panels containing tables can display an Export icon for exporting the table data to Excel, CSV, or PDF. The visibility of the export icon and the export formats are under developer control, so you may or may not see the full set.

Undo/Redo icons at the top near the tabs allow you to easily revert or reapply changes made.

Clicking a panel's Gear icon, highlighted above, will display or hide a configuration area for the specific visualization. The Table configuration area, for example, let's you control a variety of table features, which can be selected using the horizontal menu.

Table column headers contain a variety of features. When column header text is clicked, drop-down menus provide sorting, filter, formatting, grouping, and other features, as shown above. The availability of each feature is configured by the application developer, so you may not see them all.

Table columns can also be dragged to rearrange the column order or to adjust column widths.

The analyses and visualizations you create can be saved, viewed, combined, and even exported. They can be scheduled for regular production and shared with others. ACE Analytics makes all of this easy to do, so let's get started.

From the ACE Analytics screen, click the Analyze and Visualize panel.