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Broken Promises: How to Fix Dashboards
Jill Hutchinson
Technical Writer
Tableau
# T C 1 8
Good afternoon!
LOOK!
UP IN THE SKY!
Broken Promises: How to Fix Dashboards
Jill Hutchinson
Technical Writer
Tableau
# T C 1 8
This dashboard is broken.
Agenda
Intro
“This isn’t what I asked for.” (Audience & Purpose)
“The information is wrong or missing.” (Troubleshooting)
“It’s too confusing and ugly!” (Functionality & Beauty)
Wrap Up
@jubyleedata
1. Review the broken dashboard
2. List the problems
3. Make a plan
4. Dive in and start fixing!
5. Polish your dashboard
Steps to Superhero Success
Confirm purpose and audience
Verify server and data source permissions
Check data combinations
Check calculations and filters
Review the look and functionality
Performance
Best practices for dashboard performance
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Server and Data Sources
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The Doctor is always in!
Covered Elsewhere
Super Superstore
Empress Midnight
Over Overlord
Captain Miracle Empire of the East
Legendary Burning Bird
West Coast Wilds
Lex Lethal
Secret South
Professor Z
Central Citadel
This isn't what I asked for.
Audience and Purpose
What questions are they trying to answer?
Audience and Purpose
Overlords looking to increase profitable products.
What questions are they trying to answer?
Audience and Purpose
Overlords looking to increase profitable products.
What questions are they trying to answer?
Who’s winning?
What states are unprofitable?
What specific products are failing?
How much of Sales are getting returned?
Audience and Purpose
Overlords looking to increase profitable products.
What questions are they trying to answer?
Who’s winning?
What states are unprofitable?
What specific products are failing?
How much of Sales are getting returned?
Click to get more info; deep dive
Audience and Purpose
Overlords looking to increase profitable products.
What questions are they trying to answer?
Who’s winning?
What states are unprofitable?
What specific products are failing?
How much of Sales are getting returned?
Click to get more info; deep dive
Over Overlord needs to know who is winning to know who to send to the fiery pit below the boardroom.
Audience and Purpose
Overlords looking to increase profitable products.
What questions are they trying to answer?
Who’s winning?
What states are unprofitable?
What specific products are failing?
How much of Sales are getting returned?
Click to get more info; deep dive
Over Overlord needs to know who is winning to know who to send to the fiery pit below the boardroom.
Determine bragging rights and problem products.
1. Review the broken dashboard
2. List the problems
3. Make a plan
a) Fix the big numbers and return sales
b) Make it interactive
c) Focus on PROFIT and PRODUCTS.
4. Dive in and start fixing!
5. Polish your dashboard
Steps to Superhero Success
The information is wrong.
This is just UGLY.
1. Review the broken dashboard
2. List the problems
3. Make a plan
a) Fix the big numbers and return sales
b) Make it interactive
c) Focus on PROFIT and PRODUCTS.
4. Dive in and start fixing!
5. Polish your dashboard
Steps to Superhero Success
1. Know your audience
2. Consider display size
3. Plan for fast load times
4. Leverage the sweet spot
5. Limit the number of views and colors
10 Best Practices
6. Add interactivity to encourage exploration
7. Format from largest to smallest
8. Leverage tooltips, the story within your story
9. Eliminate clutter
10. Test your dashboard
1. Review the broken dashboard
2. List the problems
3. Make a plan
4. Dive in and start fixing!
5. Polish your dashboard
Steps to Superhero Success
More Information
Appendix
Resources for each section of this talk
General Reference
Knowledge Base
White Papers
Support
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Broken Promises: How to Fix Broken Dashboards
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