Lesson 11
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IS428 Visual Analytics for Business Intelligence
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Information Dashboard Design
Contents
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
Readings
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
