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Style Intelligence™ | Business Intelligence Video Training Resources

These videos will help you begin and eventually master MetaDash's premium BI software, Style Intelligence.

Many of the lessons, tips, and tricks learned here can be applied across a variety of MetaDash applications. With this video resource gallery, learn the basics about using a dashboard and browse the catalog of technical materials and webinars for mastery of advanced visualization techniques.

Style Intelligence 2018 Training Videos

(for videos covering previous versions, click here)

Preparing Your Data







  • Connect to relational (JDBC) database: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Sybase, Informix, PostgreSQL, Access

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  • Create a new calculated field at the dashboard level based on detail or aggregate data.
  • Saving the new calculated field with the dashboard

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  • Switch between the different concatenation types
  • Covers Union, Intersection, and Minus concatenation types

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  • Create a union between two or more data sets

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  • Convert a regular data block (which queries a data source) to an Embedded Table whose data is saved together with the Data Worksheet

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  • Manually type data into a data block
  • Save the typed data in the data worksheet

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  • Create a new data worksheet
  • Construct a data block from a database table, query, or data mode

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  • Add a new data field by writing a SQL or JavaScript expression

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  • Filter grouped and aggregated data in a Data Worksheet

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  • Filter detail data in a Data Worksheet

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  • Filter the highest or lowest ranking groups or data based on a measure value in a data worksheet

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  • Filter data using a JavaScript or SQL expression

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  • Filter data using a comparison between columns

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  • Filter data in a data block using login session information

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  • Filter Data in a data block using parameterized conditions

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  • Group and aggregate data using a crosstab data block

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  • Group and aggregate data in a data block

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  • import data into a data block in a data worksheet

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  • Change the type of a join from "inner" to "outer" or "inequality"

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  • Create a cross join or Cartesian join between two data blocks

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  • Create an inner join or outer join between two data blocks

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  • Merge two data blocks together into a single data block

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  • Modify data in an embedded table by using form components on a dashboard

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  • Sort a data block on multiple columns simultaneously

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  • Sort a data block using the values in a single column

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  • Upload data into an existing embedded table

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Using Dashboards


  • Creating a basic chart
  • Creating a pie chart
  • Creating a point chart
  • Creating a bubble chart
  • Creating a scatter chart
  • Adding trend lines
  • Adding target lines

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  • Filtering with filter/selection components
  • Filtering numerical, date, categorical data
  • Post-aggregate filtering
  • End-user filtering
  • Fixed filtering conditions
  • Dynamic filtering conditions
  • Flyover filtering

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  • Grouping in a crosstab
  • Grouping in a chart
  • Combining groups
  • Making grouping dynamic

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  • Exporting summary data
  • Exporting detail data
  • Exporting from tables and charts

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  • Create and manage a materialized view for a dashboard
  • Improve dashboard responsiveness and reduce demands on the database

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  • Add drill-down hyperlinks to a dashboard
  • Pass context information such as parameters and filters from a summary-level dashboard to a detail-level dashboard

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  • Create table layouts that may not be available in the basic Crosstab Editor and Table Editor
  • Incorporate formulas into your tables that reference data from within the same table or from other components

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  • Configure a dashboard to allow users to enter data and write the data back into a database

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  • Use the built-in mapping feature
  • Create a custom map from a shapefile by using the free OpenJump application

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