The Big Book of Dashboards

Chapter 3 Comparing Individual Performance with Peers

A jittered dot plot (aka jitterplot) showing a selected speaker’s ratings in comparison to other speakers.

Author: Steve Wexler

Organization: Data Revelations

Scenario

Big Picture

Your company just had its annual three-day conference where hundreds of presenters educated, enlightened, and entertained over 10,000 participants. You know the conference was a big success, but you need to know which sessions were highly rated to begin planning for the next event.

This is not the first year the conference was offered. As in other years, the speakers themselves want to know if their sessions were well-received.

You create a dashboard that makes it easy for you, others in your organizations, and all the presenters to see how well or poorly their sessions were rated.

Specifics

• You hosted a conference and want to see how a certain speaker rated compared to the other speakers so you can plan for future events.
• You need to fashion a dashboard that allows individual presenters to see how they performed at the event.
• You need to make it easy to see how well or poorly a speaker performed compared to other presenters.
• You want to be able to see how many people rated a session—that is, did dozens of people rate a session or only a handful?

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