Miss our BI Dashboard Best Practices Webinar series? Well, don’t sweat it! We thoughtfully recorded the Webinar for your on-demand viewing pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwotAe-J78c&feature=youtu.be Why watch? Dashboards were rated as the most important Business Intelligence (BI) technology for implementing business-driven BI and analytics in TDWI’s best practices report, Business-Driven Business Intelligence and Analytics (published Q3, 2014). But, data visualization expert, Stephen Few, has declared that the majority of today’s BI dashboards fail. Watch this Webinar recording to learn how to deliver best practice dashboards, achieve high ROI and create BI success; not failure. Watch this Webinar recording to learn how to: •Design dashboards that provide instant insight (and nothing more!) •Create dashboards that are relevant to job function, appropriate for mode of consumption, relate to business strategy and prompt accurate, timely action •Deliver the right dashboards, to the right people, at the right time, to drive faster and better fact-based decision-making

1. Dashboard Best Practices

3. BARC The BI Survey

10. Why Dashboards?

11. 2 types of BI users

12. What do business-users want?

13. Dashboards for the BI Consumer
Dashboards are not an analyst tool
Focus on what business users want and need
Challenge is understanding how data actually gets used in organization

14. Today's Session

15. 1 - Purpose

16. Who is the dashboard for?

17. Focus on a single subject area per tab

18. How will the dashboard be used?

19. Planning your dashboard

20. What data do you need?

21. 2 - Summarize

22. Do not overwhelm

23. Summary to Detail

24. Display important metrics with KPIs

25. 3 - Layout

28. 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

29. 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

30. 4 - Clarity

31. Titles
What does this chart represent?

32. Descriptions

33. Consistency

34. 5 - Attention

35. 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

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

37. 6 - Interaction

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

39. 7 - Share and Collaborate

40. Any Platform, Any Device

41. Data-Driven Decisions

42. summary