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Ben Shneiderman
Easter egg – graphomate blocks for Design Studio and Lumira 2.0
Easter Holidays are coming while the SAP is preparing to rebrand their software, again. This time they want to marry Lumira and Design Studio, where I would appropriately call it “throwing them into a blender”. …
read moreMore than just shimmering bubbles
Once again, we sat down at the workbench to craft a new component. The result are the graphomate bubbles – a visualization component für SAP Design Studio, which can display either a scatter plot or …
read moreSAP Design Studio: Raider is now called Twix, nothing else changes
SAP caused quite a stir with the announcement to fuse SAP Design Studio and SAP Lumira. This is my view on things – the usual disclaimer applies 😉 …
The most important thing in advance: …
read moregraphomate twitters in Design Studio
While the popularity of social networks was increasing extremely over the last decade, companies decided to use them as a platform to advertise their products. There are many techniques for analyzing how the users consume …
read moreSome news on our graphomate bullet graphs
Some time ago, we presented the graphomate bullet graphs extension for SAP Design Studio. Bullet graphs – originally designed by Stephen Few – are a more comprehensive alternative to gauges when it comes to visualizing data. In early March this year, Rolf Hichert and Jürgen Faisst suggested a few improvements, of which we naturally took the opportunity to incorporate into our extension…
read moreFestive Creation of Legends
Christmas and its legends are right around the corner. A good time to give away our new legends: the graphomate legends.
Among others, Christmas legends revolve around immaculate conception, the road to Bethlehem, angels, …
read moreEaster gift: graphomate charts for Lumira FREE
Easter is coming and while the kids raiding their nests, the parents often get nothing. We at graphomate want to react on this injustice and we also fill the nests of adults: At Easter we …
read moreI prefer calculating
Pie charts are a popular target for many supposed visualization experts. And that is how it should be! However, this guest post by Manuel Sedlak sheds some new light on the pie chart.
In literature pie charts are …
read moregraphomate Christmas treemaps for free
Christmas is coming and we do look forward to a peaceful time, family and the Christmas tree. Gifts play a certain role and we do not want to come second: during Christmas season, our graphomate …
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