http://dashboardsbyexample.com Digital Dashboard Examples and Business Intelligence Best Practices from The Dashboard Spy Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:08:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While business dashboards can adopt many distinct designs in terms of look and feel, there are a core number of basic layouts that they tend to follow. I suppose this comes from grid-based design in general and the prevalence of the template approaches in popular presentation layer technologies such as ... http://dashboardsbyexample.com/dashboard-design/common-digital-dashboard-layouts/ Dashboard Example: Xcelsius TCO Dashboard Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a popular financial estimate used to assess costs (both direct and indirect costs). Typically, TCO analyzes the financial impact of deploying information technology (to take an example) over the entire life cycle. Depending on the IT deployment, factors such as ... http://dashboardsbyexample.com/xcelsius-dashboards/xcelsius-tco-dashboard/ Excel for dashboards? Yes, Microsoft Excel is an excellent starting point for business intelligence visualization. It's everywhere in the enterprise and is a good way to start an organization down the dashboard path. Chandoo, the Pointy Haired Dilbert, consistently offers amazing Excel Dashboarding Tips over at his blog at chandoo.org. ... http://dashboardsbyexample.com/excel-dashboards/excel-dashboard-tutorials/ The iPhone interface offers advances in information resolution. It "elegantly solves the design problem of small screens by greatly intensifying the information resolution of each displayed page. Small screens, as on traditional cell phones, show very little information per screen, which in turn leads to deep hierarchies of stacked-up thin ... http://dashboardsbyexample.com/data-visualization/edward-tufte-on-the-iphone-interface/ As we saw with the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board Dashboard, Washington State takes the issues of accounting and transparency quite seriously. They have a program called GMAP - Government Management Accountability and Performance. It was set up as an approach for the Governor and her cabinet agencies to track spending ... http://dashboardsbyexample.com/economic-dashboards/washington-state-economic-dashboard/ Use of color is the key to this data visualization. Take a close look and you'll realize that the gray color indicates a "yes" vote. It shows not only who voted "nay" on the $700 billion financial bailout plan, but also shows the breakdown between the Republican and Democratic representatives. This ... http://dashboardsbyexample.com/data-visualization/voting-down-the-bailout/ Dashboard designers will remember some of our posts regarding the correct use of color in business charts in general and digital dashboards in particular. We presented some material of a "prescriptive" nature. That is, we listed do's and don'ts regarding the use of color. For example, in the Dashboards by ... http://dashboardsbyexample.com/dashboard-design/using-color-on-dashboards/ Dundas Consulting has made available this demo of a project management dashboard. It's an interactive demo, so be sure to hover over the various parts of the PM dashboard. Some elements feature hover-over/tool-tip information and other elements can be clicked to drill down into the data. The project progress / task breakdown depicts ... http://dashboardsbyexample.com/project-management-dashboards/dundas-project-management-dashboard/ Designing and implementing a Marketing Dashboard? There are some critical best practices to keep in mind. According to Pat LaPointe, author of Marketing by the Dashboard Light, one must keep the following elements in mind: Build cross-functional alignment on the role of marketing Map the knowledge base to identify possible critical metrics Provide ... http://dashboardsbyexample.com/marketing-dashboards/5-best-practices/