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Patent Failure: The USPTO’s Oversized but Undernourished New Dashboard [http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=832]
 
 
 
Oracle—Have you no shame? [http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=784]
 
 
 
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Revision as of 14:37, 6 August 2016

Va.jpg IS428 Visual Analytics for Business Intelligence

About

Weekly Session

Assignments

Visual Analytics Project

Course Resources

 


Information Dashboard Design

Lesson 10 slides

Content

Introduction to Dashboard

  • What is a Dashboard
  • Categorising dashboard
  • Typical dashboard data
  • Presentation dashboard vs analytical dashboard

Thirteen Common Mistakes in Dashboard Design

  • Exceeding the boundaries of a single screen
  • Supplying inadequate context for the data
  • Displaying excessive detail or precision
  • Choosing a deficient measure
  • Choosing inappropriate display media
  • Introducing meaningless variety
  • Using poorly designed display media
  • Encoding quantitative data inaccurately
  • Arranging the data poorly
  • Highlighting important data ineffectivelly or Not at All
  • Cluttering the display with useless decoration
  • Misusing or overusing colour
  • Designing an unattractive visual display

How to design dashboard people love to use

  • Creating a solid foundation
  • Frame out the storyboard
  • Identify the building bloacks
  • Remember the data visualisation principles
  • Usability as one of the key success factor

Specialised Graphical Methods for Information Dashboard

  • Bullet graphs
  • Sparklines and Bandlines


Hands-on Session

  • Designing a business dashboard using Tableau Public
  • Designing an analytical dashboard using Panopticon EX Designer


Daily Readings

Day Time required Readings
Day 1 60 mins

Dashboard Confusion [1]

Dashboard Confusion Revisited [2]

Dashboard Alerts Checklist [3]

Day 2 60 mins

Dashboard Design for Rich and Rapid Monitoring [4]

Pervasive Hurdles to Effective Dashboard Design [5]

Assessing the Effectiveness of a New Dashboard’s Design [6]

Day 3 60 mins

Part 1 Foundation: Guide to Creating Dashboards People Love [7]

Part 2 Structure: Guide to Creating Dashboards People Love [8]

Part 3 Structure: Guide to Creating Dashboards People Love [9]


Day 4 60 mins

Bullet Graph Design Specification [10]

Dashboard Design: Taking a Metaphor Too Far [11]

Day 5 60 mins

Why Most Dashboards Fail [12]

Patent Failure: The USPTO’s Oversized but Undernourished New Dashboard [13]

Oracle—Have you no shame? [14]

The Vicious Cycle of Data Impoverishment [15]

References

Stephen Few (2013)(2nd Edition) Information Dashboard Design, Analytics Press, USA.



Discussion

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