Help Contents

Overview

  • About Optsee® Help
  • System Requirements
  • Installation
  • Registration
  • Back-Up and Sharing Files

    • Quick Start Guide

  • Table of Contents
  • Opening a Datafile
  • Naming and Saving a New Portfolio
  • Adding Project Attributes to Your Portfolio
  • Adding Individual Projects to Your Portfolio
  • Editing Projects in Your Portfolio
  • Importing Projects to Your Portfolio
  • Creating a Bubble Chart
  • Examining a Bubble Chart: First Analysis
  • Interacting With Bubbles
  • Using Zoom-Boxes
  • Annotating and Drawing on Your Charts
  • Displaying Bubbles With Zero and Below Sizes
  • Setting Chart Preferences
  • Customizing Your Bubbles
  • Adding Background Colors and Gradients
  • Creating a 3D Bubble Chart
  • Analyzing and Customizing a 3D Bubble Chart
  • Displaying Subsets of Projects
  • Using Custom Legends
  • Modifying of a Subset of Projects
  • Using the Prioritization Engine
  • Using Prioritization Bar Charts
  • Using Sensitivity Charts
  • Tracking Uncertainty and Risk
  • Using Project Ranking Charts
  • SMART Prioritization Using Simulations
  • Optimizing Your Portfolios
  • Optimizing Using Project Dependencies
  • Optimizing With "Force-In" and "Force Out"
  • Comparing Multiple Optimizations
  • Using the Selected Preference Parameter
  • Using the Portfolio Dashboard
  • Creating and Using Portfolio Views
  • Using Efficient Frontier Charts
  • Using Baseline Tracking
  • Printing and Exporting Charts
  • Printing and Exporting Portfolios

    • Portfolio Lists

  • Using the Portfolio List Form
  • Portfolio List Form
  • Portfolio List Preferences

    • Portfolios

  • Portfolio Overview
  • Portfolio Data Tab
  • Bubble Charts Tab
  • Bar Charts List Tab
  • Ranking Charts Tab
  • Sensitivity Charts Tab
  • Simulation Results Tab
  • Optimizations Tab
  • Attribute List
  • Portfolio Views
  • Saved Optimizations
  • Baseline Trends
  • Portfolio Dashboard
  • Adding Attributes
  • Adding and Editing Projects
  • Project Preferences
  • Importing Projects
  • Selecting and Displaying Subsets
  • Sorting Projects
  • Querying Portfolios
  • Portfolio Optimization
  • Printing and Exporting Portfolios
  • Portfolio Preferences

    • Attributes

  • Adding Attributes
  • Attribute List
  • Attributes Form

    • Prioritization

  • Using SMART Prioritization
  • Simulation-Prioritization
  • Prioritizer form
  • Simulation Results List
  • Cumulative Percentage Chart

    • Optimization

  • The Optsee Optimizer™
  • Optimizing Your Portfolios
  • Optsee® Pro Optimization Form
  • Optsee® Plus Optimization Form
  • Optimization Results Form
  • Saved Optimizations List
  • Compare Optimizations List

    • Bubble Charts

  • Managing Bubble Charts
  • Bubble Chart Form
  • 3D Bubble Chart Form
  • Bubble Charts List Form
  • Creating Bubble Charts
  • 2D Bubble Chart Preferences
  • Creating 3D Bubble Charts
  • 3D Bubble Chart Preferences
  • Using Custom Legends
  • Annotating Bubble Charts
  • Printing and Exporting Bubble Charts

    • Bar Charts

  • Managing Bar Charts
  • Bar Charts List Form
  • Creating Bar Charts
  • Bar Chart Preferences

    • Ranking Charts

  • Using Ranking Charts
  • Ranking Charts Form
  • Ranking Charts List Form
  • Creating Ranking Charts
  • Ranking Chart Preferences

    • Efficient Frontier Charts

  • Using Efficient Frontier Charts
  • Efficient Frontier Chart Form
  • Efficient Frontier Preferences

    • Sensitivity Charts

  • Using Sensitivity Charts
  • Sensitivity Charts Form
  • Sensitivity Charts List Form
  • Creating Sensitivity Charts
  • Sensitivity Chart Preferences

    • Menus

    Managing Bubble Charts

    Bubble charts are a type of X-Y (scatter) chart that are used to simultaneously plot three sets of data. 3D bubble charts add a third axis of data, the Z-axis to simultaneously plot four data sets.

    Each data point has X and Y values (and Z values for the vertical axis in 3D charts) that correspond to the location of the bubble center, and the size (area or radius) of the bubble represents the third value. In Optsee®, you can use both the bubble pattern and color to distinguish one project representation from another. Bubble charts are displayed in the Bubble Chart and 3D Bubble Chart forms.

    Bubble charts are highly customized by using the Bubble Chart Preferences and 3D Bubble Chart Preferences forms.

    Bubble charts are extremely useful as visual representations of portfolios. Bubble charts provide a fast way to determine how your projects are spread-out, or clustered, in the multiple dimensions of the "decision space."

    See Creating a New Bubble Chart, New Bubble Chart form, Bubble Chart Preferences, and Deleting Bubble Charts, for more information about these topics.