Place the key components of your dashboard in the upper-left or middle-left of the page.
John Walkenbach • Excel Dashboards and Reports (Mr. Spreadsheet's Bookshelf)
Another: The original chart was a proposed design for a dashboard that would show the performance of videos on a website.
Scott Berinato • Good Charts
If we understand the world through just-in-time visual queries, the goal of information design must be to design displays so that visual queries are processed both rapidly and correctly for every important cognitive task the display is intended to support.
Colin Ware • Visual Thinking: for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)

Andy Kriebel on LinkedIn: My proven 18-step Tableau dashboard design process that you can use today…
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Data visualization: □ Show one thought per slide/page. □ Don’t rely on charts or graphs to tell the story. Pull the idea out of them. Use infographics. □ Use headers to guide the story and insights. Put supporting content in an appendix for reference.