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Category: Dashboarding

Everything related to performance & management dashboards.

December 12, 2012December 13, 2012Analytics, Visualization

Recommended reading for December

Recommended reading December is always an interesting month. Analysts, software companies and journalists post a ton of predictions, reviews and opinions to […]

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November 30, 2012Analytics, Dashboarding, Visualization

Inspiration from Stephen Few

Greetings from San Francisco. I am back here to attend Osisoft’s vCampus developer conference. The conference kicked off with a true highlight: […]

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November 8, 2012Analytics, Dashboarding

Recommended reading: How to convert complex data into a story

The Analytics Communicator Analytics professionals need to be communicators. Just being technically proficient is longer enough. It is not enough to slap […]

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September 13, 2012Visualization

A few thoughts about gauge charts

Gauge charts A few days ago, I had a discussion about gauge charts. A colleague and I had reviewed a collection of […]

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August 15, 2012August 15, 2012Dashboarding, Visualization

5 lessons for using dashboard colors appropriately – Part 2

Selecting dashboard colors Last week, I wrote about the role of colors in photographs. A lot of the insights apply to the […]

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August 6, 2012August 6, 2012Dashboarding, Visualization

Dashboard color – Yes, it does matter! The basics – Part 1

  Dashboard color? Have you ever paid much attention to dashboard color and its effect on people? Colors are very powerful but […]

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June 7, 2012June 4, 2012Visualization

How to confuse and distract your audience with poor visualizations

Excuse me? We often talk about how to best visualize data so that the audience can quickly discover the most important information […]

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April 24, 2012Dashboarding

Dashboard Design Advice: Avoid eye contact at all cost!!!

Dashboard Design When I watch interviews with international sports stars, I sometimes have to laugh. Every inch of their clothing is plastered […]

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April 17, 2012April 16, 2012Dashboarding

What my car taught me about designing a successful dashboard

A useful dashboard? The other day, a former colleague sent me several screenshots of a ‘dashboarding solution’ a new team member had […]

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April 5, 2012Visualization

An Easter Egg hunt with three charts

It’s that time of the year. Millions of kids are excited about hunting for Easter Eggs. Why not do the same here […]

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Christoph writes about leadership, data, and endurance from Munich, Germany. With 25 years leading teams at companies like KPMG, Cognos, OSIsoft and msg global, he's learned that the best performance insights come from unexpected places—like ice baths and power meters.

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