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. We cover all manner of great visualisation techniques, however to kick things off let’s take a step back from the canvas and talk about the foundations.
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It’s a familiar construct of various development disciplines to build a user story, using the framework:
As a <user> I want <some thing> so that <some reason>
Or reduced to its bare bones – who, what, why?
We’re going further in this case and eliminating the ‘what’. At a macro level we’ve already decided that thing is a dashboard, and there’s plenty of time for the micro (the individual chart components) to evolve.
The ‘who’ and ‘why’ are the big ones upfront, so we start by asking:
What is the burning question we want to answer?
What specific business decisions need to be made?
Who is the audience and what will engage them?
Are they involved in the scoping?
When we think through these questions, we keep focus on the true value of the data visualisation; that is that it delivers decision-influencing insight, not merely informs.
By the end of this process we will have articulated goals that become a reference point for the whole build, ensured the right stakeholders have had input, potentially identified high-level gaps in the data, and captured a broad vision that is meaningful and has strong buy-in. Get these right, and we’re on our way to something remarkable!
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We can illuminate your data so that you can make the right, unbiased decisions for your organisation.
As your partner in data visualisation, 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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