Creating a management dashboard...

..what possibly could go wrong?

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1. Creating a Management Dashboard. What can possibly go wrong…. Kirstin Lyon DataViz Cph March 2020
2. Me Organiser: DataViz CPH Freelancer: Data Visualisation in large Organisations (management dashboards) Volunteer: Copenhagen Trampoline Club
3. Effective Examples big book of dashboards
4. Some beauties courtesy of viz.wtf!
5. -Stefanie Posavec
6. It is hard!
7. Myths 1. Picture is worth 1000 words 2. Visualisations are intuitive 3. The data should speak for itself 4. Show, don’t tell
8. Barriers to success • Tools • Expertise • Attitude • Perception • Clashing mental / models • Time • Money • Internal politics • Access to data • Process
10. ⁻ I embody all the end-users – look no further ⁻ Can I have all of the above features? ⁻ Can we please add a few things? ⁻ Do you really need data for data visualisation? ⁻ Please give me my sunburst ⁻ I want a rich UI. Can you make everything clickable? ⁻ I’d like it green and red.. And can you add some purple? ⁻ I don’t have time right now – maybe next month?
11. 6 reasons why data visualisation projects fail - towards data science
12. What to do..
13. User stories not a list of requirements “User stories are part of an agile approach that helps shift the focus from writing about requirements to talking about them. All agile user stories include a written sentence or two and, more importantly, a series of conversations about the desired functionality.” - Scrum methodology
14. Narrow down the requirements
15. Understand what chart works well
16. Uses of visual encodings
17. Getting a layout that works - Alberto Cairo 1. Divide your requirements in toSentences 2. Split in to components 3. Transform in to sections
18. ”can you please add…?” & maintenance
19. Get inspired • Big book of dashboards • Tableau public server • Search ”management dashboards” • https://everydaydashboards.com/ • Many many others….
20. Thank you!