Designing Meaningful Dashboards
This week, you have been introduced to dashboards and how they can be used in the business world. As with the other graphic presentations you have examined, dashboards are only as good as their design. You have been given suggestions for designing dashboards with ideas on what should be included and avoided. In this Application, you will have the opportunity to consider the design process.
For this application, in a 2- to 3-page paper:
References:
Few, S. (2012). Show me the number: Designing tables and graphs to enlighten. Oakland, CA: Analytics Press. Chapter 8, “Table Design” Chapter 9, “General Graph Design”
Ballou, B., Heitger, D. L., & Donnell, L. (2010). Creating effective dashboards: How companies can improve executive decision making and board oversight. Strategic Finance, 91(9), 27-32.
Retrieved from the Computers & Applied Sciences Complete database.
This article discusses effective design of dashboards through defining requirements, and understanding assumptions and metrics for short-term decision making.
Bremser, W. G., & Wagner, W.P. (2013). Developing dashboards for performance management. The CPA Journal, 83(7), 62-67.
Retrieved from the Business Source Complete database
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