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1. Dashboard Best Practices 2016 v.2

3. What do business-users want?

5. Why Dashboards?

6. 2 types of BI users

7. Dashboards for the BI Consumer

8. 1 - Purpose

9. Who is the dashboard for?

10. What data do you need?

11. 4 - Functionality

12. How will the dashboard be used?

13. Planning your dashboard

14. Make dashboards an engaging experience
Examine data further
with
Tooltips
Drill
Brushing
Filters
Date Slider
Series Selection
Map Zoom & Layers

15. 2 - Summarize

16. Single subject area per tab
Don't overwhelm

17. Summary to Detail

18. Display important metrics with KPIs

19. 3 - Relevance

20. Is it relevant to your audience

21. 5 - Visual Fit

22. Right chart to tell your story

23. 6 - Layout

26. Allocate layout by importance - Before
Reports in the wrong order
Athlete Regional Metrics - wrong
shape
Bubble - not wide enough to be
clear
Campaign effectiveness - clear
Agency Sales over Time - too small
Heat Grid - clear

27. Allocate layout by importance - After
Athlete Regional Metrics - correct
shape & size
Bubble - double width now, easier
to read
Campaign Effectiveness - slightly
more space
Agency Sales over Time - double
width, easier to read
Heat Grid - clear

28. 7 - Clarity

29. Titles
What does this chart represent?

30. Descriptions

31. Conditional Formatting
Rank Flag Camp Country Invoiced Profit Cost Rating % of Max
1 Italy $8,882,013.53
2 Austria $7,447,954.66
3 USA $5,642,422.04
4 Australia $4,490,174.68
5 New Zealand $3,637,444.43
6 Japan $2,185,357.28
7 Germany $1,681,510.02
8 Canada $1,458,473.15
9 Armenia $1,296,521.07
10 Finland $1,145,911.31
Colours to highlight extremes
Icon alerts
Flags

32. Annotations and Reference Lines
Use annotation sparingly
Annotations get more attention
Higher dwell time

33. 8 - Consistency

34. Consistency

35. 9 - Trust

37. 10 - Share

38. Any Platform, Any Device

39. Data-Driven Decisions