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jeroenterheerdt
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft EmployeeShare your thoughts on visual calculations (preview)
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jeroenterheerdtMicrosoft Employee
Microsoft Employeethat makes sense, thanks for explaining. How would you envision your viewers to understand that though? Would you not tell them? Let them figure it out on their own? Show some kind of message / indicator that the visual they are looking at is sorted by something they can't see? Alternatives?
Well, I would use many of the same features I would use already when a measure or visual or page needs some extra explaination, like
- Info functionality mouse over
- Heading / sub header
- A transparent picture that can be uhidden using bookmark that utilizes speech bubbles to explain / document functionalities on the page (a very versatile option)
- Education of users / documentation (in many instances the sorting comes from a requirement in the first place)
- Sometimes it is logical to the specific users, needing no explaination
- other
As I see it there are many options to achieve knowledge / understanding on the users part. And we need to remember that the user can change the sorting as well, and this could also be one of the options available to them.