Designing Effective Dashboards
- Author: Dave Nyenhuis
- Full Title: Designing Effective Dashboards
- Category: articles
- Document Tags: #geospatial
- URL: https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcuser/designing-effective-dashboards/
Highlights
- SNAPSHOT DASHBOARDS
A snapshot dashboard summarizes a static dataset to communicate some information such as census data or analysis results. Charts can often complement a map in visualizing data temporally or categorically in addition to spatially. Once the information is communicated and understood, users may be done viewing it.
These dashboards can serve several purposes:
• Inform
• Explain
• Persuade
• Analyze (View Highlight)
- MONITORING DASHBOARDS
Instead of showing data for a point in time, monitoring dashboards summarize data that is changing. This could be data that changes many times per minute, daily, or even monthly. In each case, the dashboard provides always-current data to viewers.
What information do viewers need to know? Well, that’s for you to decide, but the purpose of a monitoring dashboard will likely fall under one of the following categories:
• Inform
• Provide status
• Evaluate performance
• Convey progress
• Analyze (View Highlight)