Designing an Effective Dashboard
July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Here’s a nice overview presentation of effective dashboard design. The presentation does a good job of going over the do’s and don’ts and also provides a few good resources. The author follows a fairly minimalist approach to dashboard design, but with an edge of practicality.
Some key points:
- Highlight exceptions only
- Go easy on the eye candy
- It’s okay to deviate from a best practice, but only in rare instances
- Packaged dashboard solutions rarely meet all of your needs.
View more documents from Aaron Hursman.
Stimulus Bill Visualization: Where does the money go?
February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Here’s a nice visualization that shows where the money in the stimulus bill is allocated at a high level. The original can be found at the Washington Post, which created this visualization based upon an analysis conducted by the Congressional Budget Office. This looks to be from the original House bill and not the compromise bill that appears to have emerged from Congress yesterday.