Creating a Management Dashboard. What can possibly go wrong…. Kirstin Lyon DataViz Cph March 2020 

Me Organiser: DataViz CPH Freelancer: Data Visualisation in large Organisations (management dashboards) Volunteer: Copenhagen Trampoline Club 

Effective Examples big book of dashboards 

Some beauties courtesy of viz.wtf! 

-Stefanie Posavec 

It is hard! 

Myths 1. Picture is worth 1000 words 2. Visualisations are intuitive 3. The data should speak for itself 4. Show, don’t tell 

Barriers to success • Tools • Expertise • Attitude • Perception • Clashing mental / models • Time • Money • Internal politics • Access to data • Process 

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⁻ 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? 

6 reasons why data visualisation projects fail - towards data science 

What to do.. 

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 

Narrow down the requirements 

Understand what chart works well 

Uses of visual encodings 

Getting a layout that works - Alberto Cairo 1. Divide your requirements in toSentences 2. Split in to components 3. Transform in to sections 

”can you please add…?” & maintenance 

Get inspired • Big book of dashboards • Tableau public server • Search ”management dashboards” • https://everydaydashboards.com/ • Many many others…. 

Thank you!