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Good dashboard, bad dashboard — Andrew Bartholomew
After companies adopt business intelligence tools, before they know it, they're swimming through endless seas of dashboard charts. On the surface it might look like these companies are "data-driven," but the data is difficult to act on.Flat metrics dashboards conflate leading and lagging indicators. They don't distinguish between controllable input... See more
Daniel Schmidt • Daniel Schmidt on LinkedIn: "Flat metrics dashboards" are profoundly limited. After companies adopt… | 14 comments
In reality, to keep pace with real change in the business environment, you can keep 30 to 50 percent of the metrics on your dashboard for a year or more.
Avinash Kaushik • Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity
The most straightforward problem with a clever decorative idea is that the basic data may not be solid. The visualization then simply hides that fact—the shimmering icing over a moldering statistical cake.
Tim Harford • The Data Detective
Often dashboards are 28-tab Excel files or 34-slide PowerPoint decks. In either format, you track too many metrics and rarely segment and highlight performance, which makes it impossible for others to distill a cogent meaning from what happened and take action.