The rainbow is a beautiful example of a terrible use of color. Well, that’s not entirely true. It’s wonderful to look at in nature. But it’s misused...
Proper Use of Color in Data Visualization
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Healthcare Applications Dashboards: Patterns for Exposing Data
On the healthcare applications team, we have developed standard Measure Factory applications for visualizing, analyzing, and understanding data. In...
Learn How Analytics Can Help Pinpoint Length of Stay Opportunities
Dashboards are great tools for visualizing data. Large amounts of data that might be tedious to analyze can be quickly summarized and displayed as...
COVID-19 Analytics Toolkit Available for Healthcare Providers
As healthcare providers mobilize in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, their data is an important guide in helping them understand where their...
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...
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...
Should You Use Images on Your Dashboard? Here’s How to Find Out
To use images or not to use images? THAT is the question (well, one question) for dashboard developers. When is it a good time to use graphs, photos...
How to Use Hierarchy of Information to Simplify Your Dashboard
Companies invest a lot of money in business intelligence; as a result, you expect to receive information in an easy-to-view and intuitive format...