The “Dashboard” is Broken
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The value of dashboards has eroded. When executives hear the word “dashboard” today, they envision standard charts in BI platforms—obligatory elements for meetings rather than..

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#Healthcare Insights Using Voice-Generated Data Visualizations
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Dr. Erin Stevens collapses into her office chair after another hectic day at the clinic. She just spent 10 straight hours bouncing between patients without..

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The Business MRI: A Smarter Way to Track Performance and Collaborate
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It’s Monday morning, and the team is in a rush. Everyone scrambles to pull numbers from slow-loading tables published on the Tableau Server. Marketing is..

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From Big Screens to Paper Printouts: Adapting Your Dashboard for Different Formats
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Will your dashboard be seen on a phone? In an auditorium? On a printout? Here are the best practices for eight possible dashboard formats.

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Well-Designed Consumer Products Can Teach Us How to Build Better Business #dashboards
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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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#How_To Get Executives on Board with #Data_Visualization
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Convincing senior executives to jump on the data visualization bandwagon isn’t as complicated as you think: here are five tips to get senior decision-makers on..

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Why I Stopped Using Bullet Graphs (and What I Now Use Instead)
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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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Functional Aesthetics for #Data_Visualization: A Behind-the-Scene Q&A with the Authors
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If you ever wondered #How_To make a visualization or a dashboard that’s beautiful and functional at the same time, then read on. I had..

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Can We Understand Blood Test Results without Numbers? Ask Participant 23
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About a year ago, I handed in my dissertation. I was examining new visualisation of blood test results amongst UK patients. The aim was to..

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Reasons to Visualise the Same Data, Differently
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You may have heard, “data visualisation should tell a story” – but this is not always true. Data visuals are created for many reasons: from..

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The Declutter and Focus Concepts – Popular Academic Opinions or Effective #Design Principles?
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Declutter and focus are two guidelines for creating clear and efficient visualizations. The declutter guideline suggests removing all the non-critical elements of the chart like..

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Starting Out in #Data_Visualization Today
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My #Career path in data visualization might best be described as meandering. I started as a public health analyst, writing reports and web content for..

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Beyond the Bar: Alternative Methods for Visualizing Two Points of Change
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People love comparisons, whether between two groups or the difference in an outcome between two time points. Many data (visualization) designers use a clustered bar..

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#book #Review : Delivering Data Analytics by Nicholas Kelly
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In his book Delivering Data Analytics, author Nicholas Kelly presents us with a step-by-step guide to help #Business_Intelligence (BI) consultants drive BI adoption from..

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Getting to Know… Lawrence Gray, PhD
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The dataviz #Community is broad and encompasses practitioners from a range of backgrounds, professions, and interests. In an effort to get to know the community,..

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#How_To Create a Pivot #Marimekko_chart in Plain JavaScript
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You have probably already seen many different articles on bar and pie #Charts. It’s enough to suggest that they are the only chart options available..

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The #Information_is_Beautiful_Awards are Back !
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During our State of the Industry panel at Outlier, we welcomed a video address from a special guest: David McCandless. Founder of the Information is..

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Effective Data Visualizations Should Focus on #narrative, Not Numbers
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Data visualization is an incredibly powerful tool — but too often, it’s underutilized or simply misused by brands and other organizations. That’s not just because people..

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Getting to know… Jarrett C. Hurms
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The dataviz #Community is broad and encompasses practitioners from a range of backgrounds, professions, and interests. In an effort to get to know the community,..

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Embrace the Challenge to Beat Imposter Syndrome
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Imposter syndrome came up as a common struggle in October’s Topics in #Data_Visualization discussion about education on the DVS Slack channel. When talking about..

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Does #Data_Visualization Have #rules? Or Is It All Just “It Depends”?
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tl;dr: In the data visualization community, there are those who believe that there are universal rules such as “Never use pie #Charts”, or, “Always include..

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I’ve Stopped Using #box_plots. Should You?
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tl;dr: After having explained #How_To read box plots to thousands of workshop participants, I now believe that they’re poorly conceived (box plots, not workshop..

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Information Empowerment is a Universal Theory for Data #Design, part 1
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Part one of a six-part series on the application of design thinking for data practitioners, #Business_Intelligence analysts, researchers, and anyone working with data.Jason comes..

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#How_To in #Grafana - Part 2: Creating Interactive Dashboards
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This is the second article in a series about Grafana. Part 1 was an intro, demonstrating how to create a simple static dashboard using Grafana,..

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Why Can’t We Have More Fun ?
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This is part 8 in a #series of articles that illustrate how basic #Design principles can improve information display. The previous article reviewed chart choices..

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Dashboard #psychology: Effective #feedback in Data Design
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/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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