Introduction If you spent any time working with charts, you are probably aware of the controversy around pie charts. While there are some aspects to be discussed, others are generally agreed upon. One of these ones is the fact that it’s next to iimpossible to compare the slices of two pies with each other. Nevertheless, …
Introduction There are a lot of visualisation common practises that are less than ideal. One of those is the funnel chart. I think the analogy works well, however a lot of implementations are misleading at best. Unfortunately the default funnel chart in CRMA belongs in that category. As the value is only encoded in the …
Introduction A jittered bar chart has been on my list to do as a challenge since we started this challenge; this week it’s finally time and I can actually leverage the work Lorna Brown has done for the Tableau WoW earlier this year. I ran into different constraints here so I created a new data …
Introduction My turn again! I got a message from Ruy Aguilera recently, asking if there is a way to create a heat map with rectangles rather than squares in CRMA. While I don’t really mind squares, the way it is implemented leaves room for improvement! For starters, if the chart is dynamic and might show …
Introduction This week we align ourselves with the DuBois challenge, which aims at celebrating the work of W.E.B. Du Bois. You can learn more about him, his visualisations, the data behind them and the challenge here: https://github.com/ajstarks/dubois-data-portraits Some of his charts are quite “out there” so I chose one that could be recreated in CRMA. …
Introduction This week we have a lot going on! I originally found a hack about 2 years ago how to create a timeline stacked bar chart. I don’t know if I just didn’t find the easy way to do it or if they released a new feature since then. Anyway, this is what we’ll do …
Introduction This week we will continue working on our dashboard from last week. We’ll improve the design a little bit and work on the interactivity to provide more information and guide the user through the dashboard. Requirements Make the header a solid white box with a a solid line below (same colour as the first …
Introduction Welcome to week 2 of the CRMA intro sessions. If you missed week 1, you can either head over and do it now or upload this dataset into your dev org to get the basis for this dashboard. Last week we created a dataset to look at line item sales. This week we want …
Introduction Hello and welcome in 2023! If you are here, hopefully one of your new years resolutions is to practise your CRMA skills. The good thing is that it takes less effort than going to the gym and is arguably more fun as well! From now on you can come back Wednesday each week to …
Yes it’s true, there is a new kid on the block! From January 2023 on, we will provide weekly CRMA challenges to help you flex your analytics muscles in Salesforce’s native analytics tool. If you thought about getting started learning all things recipes, SAQL and bindings, you are at the right place. If you have …
