By Stephen Few
Dashboards became well known in recent times as uniquely robust instruments for speaking vital details at a look. even supposing dashboards are very likely robust, this strength isn't learned. the best show know-how on the planet will not resolve this in the event you fail to exploit potent visible layout. And if a dashboard fails to inform you exactly what you must comprehend instantly, you are going to by no means use it, no matter if it truly is packed with adorable gauges, meters, and site visitors lighting. do not enable your funding in dashboard expertise visit waste.
This ebook will educate you the visible layout abilities you want to create dashboards that speak truly, quickly, and compellingly. Information Dashboard Design will clarify how to:
- keep away from the 13 error universal to dashboard design
- Provide audience with the data they want speedy and clearly
- Apply what we now find out about visible belief to the visible presentation of information
- Minimize distractions, cliches, and pointless gildings that create confusion
- Organize company details to help that means and usability
- Create an aesthetically entertaining viewing experience
- Maintain consistency of layout to supply actual interpretation
- Optimize the ability of dashboard expertise by way of pairing it with visible effectiveness
Stephen Few has over twenty years of expertise as an IT innovator, advisor, and educator. As critical of the consultancy Perceptual side, Stephen makes a speciality of info visualization for examining and speaking quantitative enterprise info. He presents consulting and coaching companies, speaks often at meetings, and teaches within the MBA application on the college of California in Berkeley. he's additionally the writer of Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten.
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If a critical shipment is at risk of missing its deadline, a high‐level statistic won't do; you need to know the order number, who's handling it, and where it is in the warehouse. Details like these might appear automatically on an operational dashboard, or they might be accessed by drilling down on or hovering the mouse over higher‐ level data, so interactivity is often useful. The ways that dashboard design must take different forms in response to different roles are clearly worth your attention. We'll examine some of these differences in more detail in Chapter 8, Putting It All Together, when we review several examples of what works and what doesn't for various purposes. 2. 2. Typical Dashboard Data Dashboards are useful for all kinds of work. Whether you're a meteorologist monitoring the weather, an intelligence analyst monitoring potential terrorist chatter, a CEO monitoring the health and opportunities of a multi‐billion dollar corporation, or a financial analyst monitoring the stock market, a well‐designed dashboard could serve you well. 2. 2. 1. The Common Thread in Dashboard Diversity Despite these diverse applications, in almost all cases dashboards primarily display quantitative measures of what's currently going on. This type of data is common across almost all dashboards because they are used to monitor the critical information needed to do a job or meet one or more particular objectives, and most (but not all, as we'll see later) of the information that does this best is quantitative. The following table lists several measures of "what's currently going on" that are typical in business. Table 2‐2. class Measures revenues Bookings Billings Sales pipeline (anticipated sales) Number of orders Order amounts Selling prices advertising Market share Campaign success Customer demographics Finance sales charges earnings Technical Support Number of support calls Resolved cases Customer satisfaction Call durations achievement Number of days to ship Backlog Inventory levels production Number of units manufactured Manufacturing times Number of defects Human Resources Employee satisfaction Employee turnover Count of open positions Count of late performance reviews Information Technology Network downtime System usage Fixed application bugs Web Services Number of visitors Number of page hits Visit durations These measures are often expressed in summary form, most often as totals, slightly less often as averages (such as average selling price), occasionally as measures of distribution (such as a standard deviation), and rarer still as measures of correlation (such as a linear correlation coefficient). Summary expressions of quantitative data are particularly useful in dashboards, where it is necessary to monitor an array of business phenomena at a glance. Obviously, the limited real estate of a single screen requires concise communique. 2. 2. 1. 1. Variations in timing Measures of what's currently going on can be expressed in a variety of timeframes.