Dashboarding: The Developers’ Role in Data Analysis
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/dashboard-data-analysis
Visual display
of
the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives
which
fits entirely on a single screen
so it can be
monitored at a glance.
(Stephen Few)
Categories of dashboard:
- Strategic (long term decisions)
- Analytical (immediate decisions, explorable)
- Operational (immediate decisions)
Don'ts:
- too big
- missing context
- excessive detail
- deficient measure
- inappropriate visualization
- meaningless variety
- poorly design visualization
- large lie factor
- poor arrangement
- bad highlighting
- chartjunk
- unattractive display
Dos:
- simplicity - reduce non-data pixels (data-ink ratio)
- simplicity - reduce data pixels
- highlight appropriately (color, position, form, motion)
Books:
Information Dashboard Design (Stephen Few)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward R. Tufte)