Good data, great dashboards

Are you seeing the value in your data?

In this series the team at White Box takes a look at visualisation best practice, covering all manner of dashboarding techniques to optimise your reporting tools.

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Through the journey we looked at setting the right foundations with goal planning, keeping the right story in mind, ways to enhance user engagement, applying sharp aesthetics, and being mindful of system constraints.

With all those best practices deployed, we can relax in the knowledge that our new dashboard is perfect, right?

Not quite, because the stakeholders have the last say. Maybe they prefer some different colours, quite like a pie chart, or can’t live without a big table of numbers. And of course there might be some measures that have been misinterpreted or misapplied.

Whatever the case, a phased review is always important. Where possible a fresh set of internal eyes to sense check everything, then the key client stakeholder, followed by soft deployment with a selected user team, before finally going out to production.

The size and complexity of the dashboard will determine how many of these layers are needed, but in any event the developer needs to prepare to separate themselves from the passion of the build and impartially receive and implement feedback.

Happily though, the more disciplined the build, and importantly, the more the main stakeholders are kept across progress, the less likely it is that material revision will be requested. Deploy to production and celebrate!

We specialise in data visualisation at White Box

We can illuminate your data so that you can make the right, unbiased decisions for your organisation.

As your partner in data visualisation - Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, Looker and more - we’ll help you see the full potential of your data and maximise your business success through advanced and innovative solutions that make all the difference.

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