Importing your own Pictures as Pictograms to Lumira

So late Friday the SAP Lumira twitter handle asks:

Who’s got some #Halloween data sets? Would love to see some festive #dataviz‘s esp. in #ThronesofData @SAPAnalytics http://t.co/m5K7uAEwap

— SAP Lumira (@SAPLumira) October 31, 2014

I spent most of my time trying to locate Halloween data without taking the time to scrape sites.  I found Chicago Halloween stores at the Chicago City data portal and came up with this;

Figure 1

It’s now very Halloween festive.  I thought of using the SAP Jack-O-Lantern that Timo Elliott shared earlier in the day:

Figure 2: Source: Timo Elliott

But I struggled getting that into Lumira as a Pictogram. It turns out that you need to convert the file to an SVG file.

So I used http://www.mobilefish.com/services/image2svg/image2svg.php site to convert the .PNG/.JPEG file into SVG

Then I could import the image as a pictogram after converting the file.

Then for fun I can replace jack-o-lanterns in the bar/column charts:

I can share the result using Lumira Cloud:

https://cloud.saplumira.com/open?key=5453B883BAFA1F73E10000000A4E4243&type=HANALYTIC

Hopefully next year more Halloween data will be available.