Lesson12

ISSS608 Visual Analytics and Applications

About

Weekly Session

Assignments

Visual Analytics Project

Course Resources

Analytical Dashboard Design

Lesson 12 slides and web 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	A Guide to Creating Dashboards People Love to Use [7] Bullet Graph Design Specification [8] Dashboard Design: Taking a Metaphor Too Far [9]
Day 4	60 mins	Sparkline theory and practice Edward Tufte [10] Best Practices for Scaling Sparklines in Dashboards [11] Introducing Bandlines [12]
Day 5	60 mins	Why Most Dashboards Fail [13] Patent Failure: The USPTO’s Oversized but Undernourished New Dashboard [14] Oracle—Have you no shame? [15] The Vicious Cycle of Data Impoverishment [16]

References

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

Discussion

Discussion Lesson 12