Designing Dashboards that Deliver

While writing Dashboards That Deliver, we conducted a survey of over 450 dashboard creators and users and asked them this question:

To what degree do you agree with the statement “most dashboards fail” ?

71% indicated that they agree or strongly agree with this statement.

But what do successful dashboards have in common?

They focus on what their users need from the data, not just spinning up shiny charts.

"Start with your audience" is one of the first slides in most good data viz trainings, but we often skip over how to do that efffectively.

We need to understand who our potential users are, why they need a new dashboard, and how and when they'll use the dashboard. That goes beyond layout and color choices: we're building an interactive, analytical tool, which meets users where they are now and evolve as needs change.

Many dashboard workshops focus on teaching how to use a specific tool. Or they're focused only on the charts and design decisions, like how to use color, text, and filters to guide your users, that make up what you see on your screen. This workshop is different.

During this workshop, you'll learn how to think like a dashboard design expert and implement a user-centered, Agile approach when designing new dashboards or updating existing ones.

You'll learn from real world scenarios that bring the concepts from Dashboards That Deliver off the page. We'll design a new dashboard through a two day 'design sprint' approach that will keep you on your toes (even though we're not writing python, VizQL, or DAX).

You'll leave with a roadmap you can adapt and implement in your work to develop more effective dashboardes, whether you're working as a team of one or part of a 100+ person analytics team.

Note that the workshop will run both Tuesday, October 7 and Wednesday, October 8 from 9AM to 4PM . Your workshop pass includes both days, though Eventbrite limitations only show one day on the event description.