Data Visualization

• What Is a Dashboard?
• Final Thought: There Are No Perfect Dashboards 
• Why Do We Visualize Data?
• How Do We Visualize Data?
• Color
• Common Chart Types
• When Our Visual Processing System Betrays Us
• Every Decision Is a Compromise
• Summary

2 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

• Course Metrics Dashboard
• Comparing Individual Performance with Peers
• What-If Analysis: Wage Increase Ramifications
• Executive Sales Dashboard
• Ranking by Now, Comparing with Then
• Are We on Pace to Reach Our Goals?
• Multiple Key Performance Metrics
• Power Plant Operations Monitoring
• Showing Year-to-Date and Year-over-Year at the Same Time

6 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

• Premier League Player Performance Metrics
• RBS 6 Nations Championship Match Performance Analysis
• Web Analytics
• Patient History Analysis of Recent Hospital Admissions
• Hospitality Dashboard for Hotel Management
• Sentiment Analysis: Showing Overall Distribution

1 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

• Showing Sentiment with Net Promoter Score
• Server Process Monitoring
• Big Mac Index
• Complaints Dashboard
• Hospital Operating Room Utilization
• Showing Rank and Magnitude
• Measuring Claims across Multiple Measures and Dimensions
• Showing Churn or Turnover
• Showing Actual versus Potential Utilization
• Health Care Provider Productivity Monitoring
• Telecom Operator Executive Dashboard
• Economy at a Glance
• Call Center

4 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

• Making Your Dashboards Personal - Overview
• Personalized Dashboards
• Make the Demographics Dashboard Personal
• But What If You Still Want to Make Something Beautiful?
• Conclusion
• Visualizing Time - Introduction
• How Much Time Do You Want to See?
• How Does Today Compare with the Start of a Time Period?
• Are There Cyclical Patterns in My Data?
• How Can I Look Up Trends Across Two Time Dimensions?
• How Can I Look at Rank, Not Value, Over Time?
• How Can I Compare Growth Rates of Things That Happen at Different Times?
• How Can I Show the Duration of Events?
• How Can I Focus on Bottlenecks in a Process?
• Which Time Chart Should I Use on My Dashboard?

4 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →