Reduce the Number of "Things" and the Size of the "Things" in a Document

A Displayr document contains lots of different things: calculations, variables, length of responses in text variables, data sets, visualizations, tables, images, text boxes, shapes, controls, etc. The fewer things in a document, and the smaller the things are, the smaller the document will become. Particular things that are useful to reduce are: 

• Reduce the size of the data file by:
  • Saving it in a more efficient format (e.g., a QDat file), see How to Publish Data to the Displayr Cloud Drive.
  • Remove any unnecessary variables and cases. See:
    • Reduce the Number of Unnecessary Variables and Variable Sets and
    • Create a Separate Data Preparation Document.
• Reduce the size of results (e.g., from calculations), see Minimize the Size and Distance of Data Being Moved.
• Reduce the Number of Calculations in a Document and also consider other tips in our How to Reduce Reliance on Code section.
• Reduce the number and size of images used in a document.

Many times, when our team reviews documents that are "slow", they discover hundreds or even thousands of unwanted tables and variables. 

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