Over the past several years, the number of healthcare applications built at Dimensional Insight on Diver Platform has exploded. We now have 15...
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What You Need to Know About President Biden’s Marijuana Pardon
On October 6th of this year, President Biden publicly pardoned people held in federal prisons for the crime of smoking marijuana. There were three...
How to Ace this Year’s OND
Everyone knows that October-November-December (OND) is a critical time of year for companies selling wine, spirits, and beer. OND is rapidly...
Why move your analytics to the cloud?
If you ask most anyone about moving their software to the cloud, they'll not only know what you are talking about, more often than not, they will be...
How You Can Better Visualize Your Data
If you think about it for a moment, the purpose of visualizations is to communicate information effectively. And you want to do that in ways that...
Back to Basics: 5 Things to Think about When You Create a Dashboard
Your organization has invested a lot of time and money collecting data and wants to get some useful information out of what you’ve collected. In the...
A Cool Tool for Experimenting with Dashboard and Portal Color Schemes
Year after year, our web site visitors have shown a great deal of interest in an article I wrote about a tool that can be used to explore color...
Meet Dimensional Insight’s Top Dashboard Designer, Zhenggang Hu
Many of our customers have commented recently on how beautiful our new application interface designs look. But do they know who is responsible for...
Visual Standards in Dashboard Design
People often confuse design with style. But this is misguided. They do not mean the same thing. Design principles do not change. Yet style is...
How to Get a Fresh Dashboard Look and Feel
In January, I conducted our company’s bi-monthly customer webinar and talked about some best practices for dashboard design. I also presented a new...
Designing a Print-Ready PDF in PrintDP
Last year, I wrote an article, How to Design a Print-Ready DivePort Page, which outlined the steps one should take to create a PDF from DivePort...
How to Create a Dashboard Design Look Book (#2 in a Series)
In my last blog post, I talked about how create a specific dashboard that would help you save time on design. Now in this post, I will take a look...
How to Create a Dashboard Design Look Book (#1 in a Series)
In the past, I’ve written articles about dashboard design at a conceptual level, dispensing advice about how much white space to use or sharing...
How to Select Charts for Effective Data Display
Today’s dashboard environments provide dashboard designers with a rich set of indicators and charts, ranging from bullet graphs to spark lines to...
How to Get Some Dashboard Design Inspiration
As a designer, I know – everyone gets bored with design from time-to-time. You *could* imitate someone else’s design or flat-out use a template. But...
How to Design a Print-Ready DivePort Page
Oftentimes, dashboard designers create a page that is so valuable to users that inevitably, someone wants to share the material as a PDF. When this...
How to Use a Feedback Loop to Refine Your Dashboard Design
There are tons of dashboard design examples on the Internet. Just Google "dashboard design examples" yourself and you'll see. (I got 1,060,000...
How to Determine the Ideal Screen Dimensions for Dashboards
My last Dashboard Design article focused on how to use the Law of Thirds and the Golden Rule to help designers layout their dashboards. In that...
How to Design a Dashboard When You’re Not a Graphic Designer
“I’m not a designer, dang it!” Does that sentiment sound familiar to you? You’re not alone. Lots of IT professionals find themselves in this...
How to Use Location Intelligence to Turbo-Charge Your Analytics
Location intelligence is not new. People have been analyzing demographic data by comparing region to region for many years. Just think of Walter...