Business Reporting, Visual Analytics & Dashboards

Types of Business Reports
1. 1) Metric Management Reports
2. 2) Dashboard-Type Reports
3. 3) Balanced Scorecard-Type Reports
Types of Dashboards
1. 1) For Strategic Purposes (Managing)
2. 2) For Analytics Purposes (Analysis)
3. 3) For Operational Purposes (Monitoring)
Layers of Information
1. Bottom Layer: Detailed Reporting View
2. Middle Layer: Multidimensional View
3. Top Layer: Summarised Graphical View
Visual Attributes
1. Colour
  1. Hue
  2. Intensity
2. Form
  1. Orientation
  2. Line length
  3. Line width
  4. Size
  5. Shape
  6. Added marks
  7. Enclosure
3. Position
  1. 2-D Location
4. Motion
  1. Flicker
Principles for Dashboard Design
1. Only information needed
2. Condense information, don't decrease meaning
3. Customise dashboard
4. Display information so that it can be read & understood easily
Different types of Graphs
1. Basic
2. Specialised
Gestalt Principles of Visual Perceptions
1. Proximity
2. Closure
3. Similarity
4. Continuity
5. Enclosure
6. Connection
Key Goals and Steps of Visual Dashboard Design
1. 1) Reduce the non-data pixels
  1. Eliminate all unnecessary non-data pixels
  2. De-emphasize and regularise the non-data pixels that remain
2. 2) Enhance the data pixels
  1. Highlight the most important data pixels that remain
  2. Eliminate all unnecessary data pixels

Resource summary

	Created by Jade Ye almost 9 years ago