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What is a Dashboard?
Defining dashboards, visual analysis tools and other data presentation media. There are many different ideas of what a dashboard is. This article will clearly define it along with other presentation tools. In my article, What is BI - A Business Intelligence Primer, I...
6 Golden Rules to Successful Dashboard Design
Dashboards are often created on-the-fly with data being added simply because there is some white space not being used. Different people in the company ask for different data to be displayed and soon the dashboard becomes hard to read and full of meaningless...
Visualizing For The Color Blind
In the world of data visualization and dashboards colors form an integral part of telling the data story effectively. However, not everyone has the ability to to see every color equally. The article from Dashboard Insights talks about creating dashboards and data...
A Very High Level Intro to Dashboards
So what exactly is a dashboard? Well, an easy answer would be to say that it’s that thing in your car, usually above the steering wheel. But we’re not talking about that kind of dashboard. We’re talking about the ones that are used in businesses; healthcare, retail,...
How to Implement Lean BI
Before delving into what Lean BI is, it is important to address what Lean BI is not. Many people hear the word “Lean” and it conjures up images of featureless tools, limited budgets, reduced development and the elimination of jobs. Dispelling those myths out of the...
Why do you need a Business Intelligence (BI) Solution?
With the amount of data stored by companies growing exponentially, it is no surprise that finding the right data management solution continues to show up on the priority list of Chief Information Officers (CIO). Data has to be secure and distributed efficiently for...
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