Tag: dashboards

A bubble chart titled "Measuring Impact One Project at a Time," created by CannonDesign. The chart visualizes various projects and their labor hours across different departments, including Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Customer Service, Operations, Product Development, Administration, Research & Development, and Legal & Compliance. Each bubble represents a project, with the size of the bubble indicating the amount of labor hours dedicated to that project. The projects are listed on the left side, and the departments are listed at the top. The chart uses different colors to represent each department, making it easier to distinguish between them.O
Melissa Alexander

On Business and Beauty in Data Visualization

In the business of consulting, our clients rely heavily on data visualization to make sense of complex information and drive decision-making. If you’ve ever interacted with the c-suite of a large institution, you know that capturing their attention and conveying insights effectively can be a daunting task.
The infographic displays Singapore’s low and stable 2-year recidivism rates with a line chart for 2006-2020, alongside a large iceberg illustration representing the hidden complexities of successful reintegration into society. It includes text sections on perseverance and external support, emphasizing the unseen challenges of reintegrating former offenders.T
Kaushik Kompella

Tips & Tricks to Improve your Dashboard Design

Learn how to use data context, visual flow, color, typography, and appeal to create engaging data visualizations for business users.
Timeline illustrating key events and the emotional evolution throughout my mentorship program, accompanied by the data visualizations I created during this period.D
Victor Muñoz

Data Dreams Come True: My DVS Mentorship Experience

The DVS mentorship program was as much an emotional experience as it was an educational one. Here are key lessons I learned along the way.
A Midjourney image of people looking at a dashboard (made by Alex Kolokolov) on different devices and screens.F
Alex Kolokolov

From Big Screens to Paper Printouts: Adapting Your Dashboard for Different Formats

Will your dashboard be seen on a phone? In an auditorium? On a printout? Here are the best practices for eight possible dashboard formats.
A dashboard with a big red "Redesign" stamp over it. A cartoonish crown hangs on the dashboard's top right corner.H
Alex Kolokolov

How I Took Off My Dashboard Crown and Admitted My Mistakes

An intern ripped apart a dashboard that I had considered a model of good design. I chose to swallow my pride and learn from the experience.
Hyper-realistic AI-generated image depicting a people's eyes gazing intently at intricate graphs and data, blending human and technological perspectives.M
Erdni Okonov

Making Dashboards Optimal for Human Brain Processing

How the science behind brain processing and active memory can help guide our dashboard and other data visual designs.
A conceptual image of a hammer overlayed with a series of trendlines all spiking up and shooting down. On top of the lines are a bunch of speech bubbles that all say "data storytelling!"H
Amanda Makulec

Has Data Storytelling Reached Its Peak?

"Data storytelling" has become an overhyped, catch-all term. Here’s how to align data storytelling expectations with colleagues and clients.
Line chart elements on the dashboard resemble pasta sticks on a plate. Delicious!W
Alex Kolokolov

When Charts Looks Like Spaghetti, Try These Saucy Solutions

Tangled heaps of lines and numbers are a recipe for disaster. Here's how to make a dashboard with more visually appetizing charts.
A view of the final dashboard. At the top are the filter buttons to select countries by characteristics (region or income) and a shuffle button that randomized the selection for you. Below that is the radial diagram and to its right is a dot plot, allowing for a deeper dive into the metric.F
Lindsey Poulter

Finding The Right Elements For an Award-Winning Dashboard

Lindsey Poulter won the World Data Viz Prize using a mix of dashboard features—including a shuffle button to randomize the view.
A series of Braun items: a razor, a citrus squeezer, a radio, and a calculatorH
Marian Eerens

How Dieter Rams’s Design Principles Apply to Dashboard Design

Legendary designer Dieter Rams established 10 principles of good product design. Here's how to interpret those principles when designing business dashboards.
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Nick Desbarats

Why I Stopped Using Bullet Graphs (and What I Now Use Instead)

tl;dr: After teaching many data professionals about bullet graphs and using them in many dashboards, I started to notice that they had a fair number..
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Andy Krackov

Dashboards Are Not Data Stories

A few months ago, a longtime client asked if my data communication consultancy could build out a dashboard display for health collaboratives in California doing..
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Eli Holder

Dashboard Psychology: Effective Feedback in Data Design

“What you measure, you improve.” You’ve heard this a million times. It sounds nice. It seems plausible. There’s a bunch of evidence supporting it. But..
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Silvia Romanelli

Engaging Your Dashboard Users through User Testing

User testing is not common practice in internal KPI dashboard projects. Yet, it can bring much valuable insight, helping create a better user experience. On..
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Phil Hawkins

Draw The Rest Of The Chart: Imposter Syndrome and Leveling Up in Data Visualization

Is It Ever Gonna Be Enough? A bright, energetic consultant stares intently at Microsoft PowerPoint. This hero, inexperienced but devoted, hears a door open nearby...
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Tricia Aung

Visualizing Data for Audiences in Low & Middle-Income Countries

On a dedicated channel, #dvs-topics-in-data-viz, in the Data Visualization Society Slack, our members discuss questions and issues pertinent to the field of data visualization. Discussion..