Real Time Excel Dashboard Tracks Gas Prices
October 20, 2008
Dashboard Topic: Excel Gas Dashboard Web queries have been part of the Microsoft Excel object model for quite a while now, but are not often seen on Excel dashboards. Talented Xcelsius and Excel developer Kalyan Verma (author of the fabulous myxcelsius.com... Read more...
CERN Collider Dashboard
October 17, 2008
Digital Dashboards have been implemented to measure and track an unimaginably wide range of business activity. A Dashboard Spy reader asked me how I keep up my interest in the subject of business intelligence dashboards. After viewing thousands of dashboards,... Read more...
Dashboards As Navigation
October 14, 2008
When is a dashboard a dashboard? Recently we looked at the Dell IdeaStorm Dashboard and one of the comments was “How is this a dashboard? It might be a portal, but all it does is list links of other things to go look at. It actually contains precious... Read more...
Dow Jones Sparklines
October 13, 2008
Every meeting in the office these days seems to start with talk about the economic crisis. Many people are quite worried about the stock market and check quotes all day long. I thought I’d try and keep your mind at least somewhat involved with data... Read more...
Business Graphics from Apple Computer
October 9, 2008
Business Intelligence - “You’ve come a long way, baby.” Sorry, I couldn’t help but think of that slogan from the old Virginia Slim ads when I saw this short film from Apple Computer. It’s on the advantages of business graphics. Yes,... Read more...
Carbon Footprint Dashboard
October 7, 2008
When Dashboard Spy reader Jonathan Nell said that the dashboard screenshot he just sent over was really “cool”, I didn’t think he meant it literally. Well, he did. The Carbon Footprint Calculator is a data visualization example featured... Read more...
Glanceable Dashboard Monitors Physician Performance
October 3, 2008
Dashboard Topic: Patient Feedback Dashboard Allows Doctors to Measure Communication Skills. Today’s physicians and health care facilities make use of the latest advances in technology to aid in their diagnoses, manage their practices and even assist... Read more...
The Dashboard in the Lobby
October 2, 2008
Information architecture uses the idea of architecture as a metaphor. But what if we information dashboard designers and data visualization professionals took our ideas out into the architecture of the physical world? Long-time Dashboard Spy readers will... Read more...
Stock Market Dashboard
September 30, 2008
Every time I post a business dashboard that makes use of dial gauges, I get lots of feedback from data visualization experts about why the gauges don’t add much value to the dashboard. OK, my infoviz specialists, try my latest thinking on for size: So,... Read more...
Animating Dashboard Charts with Flash
September 29, 2008
The previous post detailing a Lotus Notes Dashboard showed some good looking charts and graphs. What the screenshots did not show, however, was the fact that those graphs were animated. Today we give you a flavor of the animation of the graphs, as well... Read more...
