Finally creating dashboard visualization comes to the topic in the class lecture. Good visualization speaks louder than words.
There are many good examples of how to make good visualization for corporation business performances. However, here I’d like to share what I learned from a dashboard that representing Indianapolis Museum of art performance(link).
- Dashboard doesn’t need to be filled with all different charts. All charts are in the same size, same format in this dashboard but they emphasize each chart with information-oriented icons and clear measure words. Smaller fonts for Word explanations also help readers to have better understanding about their performance.
- Numbers and icons could replace fancy charts. There are no single fancy charts in this dashboard. Highlighted numbers and relevant icons replace the charts. It provides brief information about the entire business picture.
- Transparent data is worth to present. For some company they don’t need to show the analytical data but only summarized final data. Each single data is very transparent and self-explanatory by itself.
- Clear highlight help readers to focus on the topic. Here they highlighted number with red color and words with black color. Same color for the highlight clearly comes to reader’s eyes. It unifies that chart to one theme in a sense.
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