Lesson 11

IS428 Visual Analytics for Business Intelligence

About

Weekly Session

Assignments

Visual Analytics Project

Course Resources

Information Dashboard Design

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

Highly recommended

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

Web references

• Dashboard Confusion
• Dashboard Confusion Revisited
• Dashboard Alerts Checklist
• Dashboard Design for Rich and Rapid Monitoring
• Pervasive Hurdles to Effective Dashboard Design
• Assessing the Effectiveness of a New Dashboard’s Design
• A Guide to Creating Dashboards People Love to Use
• Dashboard Design: Taking a Metaphor Too Far
• Why Most Dashboards Fail
• Patent Failure: The USPTO’s Oversized but Undernourished New Dashboard
• Oracle—Have you no shame?
• The Vicious Cycle of Data Impoverishment

Useful data visualisation techniques

• Bullet Graph Design Specification
• the bullet graph
• Sparkline theory and practice Edward Tufte
• Best Practices for Scaling Sparklines in Dashboards
• Introducing Bandlines

All About Tableau

• 7 tips and tricks from the dashboard experts
• Best Practices for Effective Dashboards
• Tableau Deep Dive: Dashboard Design – Visual Best Practices
• A Beginner’s Guide to Dashboards in Tableau
• Tableau Dashboard Design: 10 Best Practices
• Seven Tips for Formatting Tableau Dashboards: What We’ve Learned from Designing Dashboards at NASAA

All About R and Shiny

• Combining data tables and sparklines
• Building Dashboards with Shiny – Tutorial