Top N + others

Top N answers questions such as Customers contributing to the most revenue, Spend Categories that consume the most of the budget, etc.

In this section, let us see how the Top N feature works in Premium Table.

Consider the example of displaying the Top 2 categories that generated maximum Revenue.

1. Configuring TopN

STEP 1: Select the Revenue column.

STEP 2: Select Top n from the Analyze section of the Home ribbon. The Top N dialog box appears. Fill in the details to filter the Top 10 categories. Click Apply.

To show the top 2% of items, just change the selection ‘Value’ to ‘Percentage’.

Configuring TopN

STEP 3: You can see the top 10 categories with the remaining categories grouped under 'Others'. It also indicates how many items are a part of the 'Others' row.

Ranking applied

STEP 4: Hover over the 'Others' row to see a preview of the items grouped under Others. Click on the expand icon to view all the categories that have been classified as Others.

Viewing Others categories

This will display all the categories under 'Others' in a separate window.

Other categories

STEP 5: Rename the Others group by clicking the icon.

Renaming the Others bucket

2. Modifying the Others bucket

Inforiver offers multiple options to add or remove items from the 'Others' bucket.

1. To add or remove rows from the Others bucket, click on the row gripper and select the 'Add row to others' or 'Remove from others' option.

Add row to Others option

Remove row from Others

1. You can also highlight rows that are manually added or removed from the Others bucket. Enable the 'Highlight add/remove rows -TopN' from the Misc tab in display settings.

You can also apply additional customizations, such as setting a custom background and border color for rows that are removed or added to the Others bucket.

Highlight rows

In the next section, we'll be covering sorting & reordering data.