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The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios

(VISUALIZE-DATA.AE1) / ISBN : 978-1-64459-319-6
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1

Introduction

  • How This Course Is Different?
  • How This Course Is Organized?
  • How to Use This Course?
  • Succeeding in the Real World
  • What to Do and What Not to Do
  • What Is a Dashboard?
  • Final Thought: There Are No Perfect Dashboards 
2

Data Visualization: A Primer

  • Why Do We Visualize Data?
  • How Do We Visualize Data?
  • Color
  • Common Chart Types
  • When Our Visual Processing System Betrays Us
  • Every Decision Is a Compromise
  • Summary
3

Course Metrics Dashboard

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • The Traditional Approach and Why You Should Avoid It
  • Author Commentary
4

Comparing Individual Performance with Peers

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Other Considerations
  • Alternative Approach
  • Author Commentary
5

What-If Analysis: Wage Increase Ramifications

  • Scenario
  • Why This Works
  • Dashboard Designer Commentary
  • Author Commentary
6

Executive Sales Dashboard

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
7

Ranking by Now, Comparing with Then

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • The Traditional Approach, and Why You Should Avoid It
  • Other Approaches
  • Author Commentary
8

Are We on Pace to Reach Our Goals?

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
9

Multiple Key Performance Metrics

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Alternative Approaches
  • Author Commentary
10

Power Plant Operations Monitoring

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Ben Shneiderman's Mantra
  • Author Commentary
11

Showing Year-to-Date and Year-over-Year at the Same Time

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • The Traditional Approach, and Why You Should Avoid It
  • Dashboard Designer Commentary
  • Author Commentary
12

Premier League Player Performance Metrics

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
13

RBS 6 Nations Championship Match Performance Analysis

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
14

Web Analytics

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
15

Patient History Analysis of Recent Hospital Admissions

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Dashboard Designer Commentary
  • Author Commentary
16

Hospitality Dashboard for Hotel Management

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
17

Sentiment Analysis: Showing Overall Distribution

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Other Approaches
  • Author Commentary
18

Showing Sentiment with Net Promoter Score

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Avoiding the Traditional Approach to NPS
  • More Thoughts on Visualizing Sentiment
  • Author Commentary
19

Server Process Monitoring

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
20

Big Mac Index

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
21

Complaints Dashboard

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Other Approaches
  • Author Commentary
22

Hospital Operating Room Utilization

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
23

Showing Rank and Magnitude

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Another Approach: A Bump Chart
  • Author Commentary
24

Measuring Claims across Multiple Measures and Dimensions

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
25

Showing Churn or Turnover

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Other Use Cases and Approaches
  • Author Commentary
26

Showing Actual versus Potential Utilization

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
27

Health Care Provider Productivity Monitoring

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
28

Telecom Operator Executive Dashboard

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
29

Economy at a Glance

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard 
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
30

Call Center

  • Scenario
  • How People Use the Dashboard
  • Why This Works
  • Author Commentary
31

Want to Engage People? Make Your Dashboards Personal

  • Overview
  • Personalized Dashboards
  • Make the Demographics Dashboard Personal
  • But What If You Still Want to Make Something Beautiful?
  • Conclusion
32

Visualizing Time

  • Introduction
  • How Much Time Do You Want to See?
  • How Does Today Compare with the Start of a Time Period?
  • Are There Cyclical Patterns in My Data?
  • How Can I Look Up Trends Across Two Time Dimensions?
  • How Can I Look at Rank, Not Value, Over Time?
  • How Can I Compare Growth Rates of Things That Happen at Different Times?
  • How Can I Show the Duration of Events?
  • How Can I Focus on Bottlenecks in a Process?
  • Which Time Chart Should I Use on My Dashboard?
33

Beware the Dead-End Dashboard

  • Review Your KPIs
  • Track Usage with Data
  • Speak to Your Users
  • Build Starter Dashboards
  • Summary
34

The Allure of Red and Green

  • Designing Color-Blind-Friendly Visualizations
  • Conclusion
35

The Allure of Pies and Donuts

  • Background
  • Conclusion
36

Clouds and Bubbles

  • The Allure of Word Clouds and Bubble Charts
  • Marist Poll and Views of the 2016 Presidential Election
  • Conclusion
37

A Journey into the Unknown

  • Keep Asking Questions
  • The Squiggle of Visual Exploration

1

Data Visualization: A Primer

  • Creating and Analyzing Chart Types
  • Visualizing Data
2

Course Metrics Dashboard

  • Using the Show Me Toolbar
  • Creating a Connection in a New Workbook
  • Creating a Dashboard and Implementing Actions
3

Ranking by Now, Comparing with Then

  • Creating a Regional Scoreboard
4

Power Plant Operations Monitoring

  • Building a Bullet Graph
5

Showing Year-to-Date and Year-over-Year at the Same Time

  • Performing Quick Table Calculations
6

Patient History Analysis of Recent Hospital Admissions

  • Viewing the Aggregate Data
7

Showing Sentiment with Net Promoter Score

  • Creating a Stacked Bar Chart
8

Server Process Monitoring

  • Enhancing the User Experience, Analysis, and Visualizations
9

Complaints Dashboard

  • Creating Filled, Symbol, and Density Maps
10

Hospital Operating Room Utilization

  • Creating a Gantt Chart
11

Want to Engage People? Make Your Dashboards Personal

  • Creating a Dashboard in Excel
  • Creating a Story
  • Building a Dashboard
12

Visualizing Time

  • Creating a Line Chart
13

Clouds and Bubbles

  • Creating a Bar Chart
14

A Journey into the Unknown

  • Highlighting Categories of Interest

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