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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