Slides from dashboard design best practices workshops I gave at the DataDrivenSG Hackathon and DataGirls seminar on 22-23/10/2016. The visual nature of dashboards allow managers to easily monitor business performance and access information to make informed decisions. However, building a dashboard that is both useful and insightful is more than just combining a few charts together. In this presentation, you will learn all about the dashboard - what it is, how to make it great, how to plan content for it and the approach to take when building one.

1. Dashboard Best Practices 2016 v.2 (Copy)

2. What do business-users want?

4. Why Dashboards?

5. 2 types of BI users

6. Dashboards for the BI Consumer

7. 1 - Purpose

8. Who is the dashboard for?

9. What data do you need?

10. 4 - Functionality

11. How will the dashboard be used?

12. Planning your dashboard

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

14. 2 - Summarize

15. Single subject area per tab
Don't overwhelm

16. Summary to Detail

17. Display important metrics with KPIs

18. 3 - Relevance

19. Is it relevant to your audience

20. 5 - Visual Fit

21. Right chart to tell your story

22. 6 - Layout

25. 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

26. 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

27. 7 - Clarity

28. Titles
What does this chart represent?

29. Descriptions

30. 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

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

32. 8 - Consistency

33. Consistency

34. 9 - Trust

36. 10 - Share

37. Any Platform, Any Device

38. Data-Driven Decisions