Designing an Effective Dashboard

Graham Tracey — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:27:38 +0000

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.

Effective Dashboard Design

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Stimulus Bill Visualization: Where does the money go?

Graham Tracey — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:39:48 +0000

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.

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Designing an Effective Dashboard

Stimulus Bill Visualization: Where does the money go?