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PRESENTED BY
Andy Cotgreave
Drive the message home with the right dashboard
PRESENTED BY
Senior Product Consultant@acotgreave
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Agenda• What is a dashboard?• Practical design tips• How to make the message clear• Where to go for inspiration
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Agenda
• What is a dashboard?• Practical design tips• How to make the message clear• Where to go for inspiration
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What is a dashboard?
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“A dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives; consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance.”
Stephen Few, ,2004
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What is a dashboard?
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http://www.tableausoftware.com/learn/gallery
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Are all dashboards the same?
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NO!
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EXPLORATOR
YNEUTRAL
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/
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EXPLAnatory
OPINIONATED
http://graphics-info.blogspot.hk/2012/09/malofiej-20-look-at-our-participation.html
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Which one to use?
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It depends…
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Whatever the definitions, what’s the point?
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Make better, data-driven decisions. Make changes for
the better.
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Agenda• What is a dashboard?
• Practical design tips• How to make the message clear• Where to go for inspiration
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Fixed size
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The top left!
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The top left!
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http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/Whatmovieshouldwewatchtonight/Opinionmeter
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The top left!
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http://ryrobes.com/visual-analytics-and-data-porn/finding-bigfoot-data-visualize-the-squatch/
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Consistent design and formatting
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Make it “flow like a river”Consistent, easy-on-the-eye
colours
Images of Ben Jones and HealthIntelligence’s dashboards
http://healthintelligence.drupalgardens.com/content/global-overview-magnitude-disparities-and-trend-infant-mortality-world-1950-2011
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Floating? Be careful!
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Agenda• What is a dashboard?• Practical design tips
• How to make the message clear
• Where to go for inspiration
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Who is your audience?
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Well, what is the message?
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Distill the data
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Enhance the data
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Focus on the numbers
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Use the title and other text wisely!
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You know your dashboard intimately.
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You’ve built the thing. Nice. You know what every mark, axis, action, and filter does.
But your audience don’t. They need to be told what to
do
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You know your dashboard intimately.
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You know your dashboard intimately.
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http://bit.ly/UglyViz
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Agenda• What is a dashboard?• Practical design tips• How to make the message clear
• Where to go for inspiration
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Inspiration, Q+A
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Tableau Public.
Viz of the Day.Data blogs.
Tableau
Community.User Groups.
Write your own blog.
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Thank you and good luck!
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@acotgreave
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