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Good dashboard, bad dashboard — Andrew Bartholomew
- End users don’t ask for a dashboard because they really use them. They ask for them out of the need for a safety blanket that gives them the (incorrect) belief they will know everything they need to about their business. The noise of a dashboard can be comforting, but it can cause issues when it’s not truly needed (ask doctors about iatrogenic effe... See more
from Building dashboards is cowardly by Chris Butler
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- After companies adopt business intelligence tools, before they know it, they're swimming through endless seas of dashboard charts. On the surface it might look like these companies are "data-driven," but the data is difficult to act on.Flat metrics dashboards conflate leading and lagging indicators. They don't distinguish between controllable input... See more
from Daniel Schmidt on LinkedIn: "Flat metrics dashboards" are profoundly limited. After companies adopt… | 14 comments by Daniel Schmidt
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