10 Best Practices for Building Effective Dashboards
Build the best dashboards for your audience
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A well-designed dashboard is a powerful launch point for data-driven conversations. Armed with the same collection of information, your business makes faster decisions based on a single source of truth.
This whitepaper will teach you best practices for building the most effective dashboards for your audience—walking you through three sections of use cases and examples:
- Thoughtful planning will allow you to become familiar with your dashboard audience, evaluate proper display size, and appropriately plan for fast load times.
- Informed design draws from the “sweet spot” of visual cues. It is critical of view and color quantity, incorporates interactivity to encourage exploration, and considers progressive formatting.
- Refining your dashboard emphasizes user testing, puts the onus on tooltips, helps you showcase the story within your story, and eliminates clutter.
The Tableau dashboard has become the tool of choice for them to monitor how well they're doing on that project and that data cleanup initiative, as well as in the future on monitoring how they're doing from a data quality standpoint. So it's been key there.
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