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Effective Visualization
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Visual Analysis
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Visual Analysis
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Visual AnalysisPosition
Color Size/Area
Shape
(and text)
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Dashboard Best Practices
Be clear, not interesting
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Dashboard Best Practices
Some charts rarely work well:There’s nothing you can say with a pie chart…
That you can’t say better with a bar chart
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Some charts rarely work well:Especially when your dimension has lots of values:
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Other charts to avoid:
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Dashboard Best PracticesIf it doesn’t add, it subtracts
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Dashboard Best PracticesUse text sparingly, and be conscious of its size
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Dashboard Best PracticesUse color to differentiate, but only when you need to
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Dashboard Best PracticesUse color to differentiate, but only when you need to
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Dashboard Best Practices
Use color to differentiate, but only when you need to
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Dashboard Best PracticesDon’t display data redundantly
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Dashboard Best Practices
Certain charts work well for certain kinds of analysis:Comparing the value of a measure across one or several dimensions:
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Dashboard Best Practices
Certain charts work well for certain kinds of analysis:Comparing the value of multiple measures across one dimension:
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Dashboard Best Practices
Certain charts work well for certain kinds of analysis:Comparing change over time of one or several measures
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Dashboard Best Practices
Certain charts work well for certain kinds of analysis:Comparing change over time of one measure, with a small dimension
Comparing change over time of one measure, with a large dimension
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Dashboard Best PracticesCertain charts work well for certain kinds of analysis:
Percent change, plus current value
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Certain charts work well for certain kinds of analysis:Variance with even data: Variance with uneven data:
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Dashboard Best Practices
Certain charts work well for certain kinds of analysis:
Variance with uneven data: “Progress” with uneven data:
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Dashboard Best Practices
Be clear, not interesting
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