Xcelsius 2008 Dashboard - Gas Price Data
July 1, 2008
Flash-based dashboards provide great interaction between the user and the data. Technologies such as Xcelsius easily allow us dashboard designers to mix view (read only) modes with what-if analysis modes. In today’s dashboard example by Ryan Goodman... Read more...
Small Business Dashboards
June 30, 2008
Several readers of Dashboards By Example have reminded me that the objective of the blog, as the name suggests, is to show actual examples of dashboards. It’s nice to see the cutting edge visualizations and hear about the theories behind software... Read more...
The Horizon Graph
June 19, 2008
When a new information visualization technique is invented, it’s interesting news. The ones that are worthwhile find themselves in our mental toolboxes and eventually on our dashboards. Sparklines, bullet graphs, treemaps come to mind as recent... Read more...
Who is on your list of Dashboard Experts?
June 17, 2008
The design, implementation and maintenance of business dashboards spans a range of disciplines. Because dashboard design truely sits at the junction of business and technology, these disciplines are often not the areas of expertise found in the typical... Read more...
Flex Dashboard at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
June 16, 2008
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, aka the “Boston Fed”, is one of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks that make up the central banking system of the United States. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the Boston Fed serves the First... Read more...
4 Principles for Dashboard Gauges
June 13, 2008
In a recent Dashboards by Example post titled Dashboard Eye Candy, we poked fun at the usage of big honking dashboard gauges. Like them or not, however, they do indeed have their place on business intelligence applications. One of the example gauges used... Read more...
Flash Dashboard Example - Information Visualization about Oil Production
June 10, 2008
Flash-powered dashboards continue to accelerate in their adoption. By the way, I use the term “Flash-based Dashboards” to include all swf-based dashboard technologies such as Adobe FLEX, Business Objects Crystal Xcelsius, etc - anything that... Read more...
Making Dashboards More Productive - Google Analytics Dashboard Case Study
June 2, 2008
In making the ROI case for any IT project or application development project, we like to talk about the productivity that the new system will bring. The usual case was to count up how many hours a task or workflow takes if done manually and compare it... Read more...
Dashboard Eye Candy
May 29, 2008
Yes, I know that good information visualization practice and dashboard design calls for effective use of screen real estate with clear and simple devices such as sparklines and bullet graphs. Easy to read and interpret, these charts, combined with a monotone... Read more...
So Where are the Excel 2007 Dashboards?
May 23, 2008
Are less dashboards being built using Excel 2007 than I thought? The recent post about customizing the Ribbon navigation panel elements for Excel 2007 dashboards brought out a couple of comments from Dashboard Spy readers that basically said that Office... Read more...
