Dashboards: Making Charts and Graphs Easier to Understand
Dashboards Making Charts and Graphs Easier to Understand
Dashboards: Making Charts and Graphs Easier to Understand
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Data dashboards are a common tool used in web apps, intranets, and other business intelligence contexts to show regularly updated information that users must frequently monitor.
Definition: Dashboards are collections of data visualizations, presented in a single-page view that imparts at-a-glance information on which users can act quickly.
The term “dashboard” is a metaphor for a car dashboard, which provides essential information that the driver can absorb quickly, without having to think. Thus, dashboards are not intended as expansive views of complex data: Their goal is not to facilitate exploration; instead, they provide information that can be consumed fast, with a minimum of interaction or cognitive processing. Users can glance...
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