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A. KhanVisual Analytics for Dashboardshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0119-8_5

5. Dashboard Design

Arshad Khan1  
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Tracy, CA, USA
 

Design Principles

Need for Effective Design

Dashboards and data visualization are cognitive tools that improve the “span of control” over business data. They help to visually identify trends, patterns, and anomalies, and guide toward effective decisions. With dashboards, scorecards, and other visualization tools now widely available to business users for analyzing their data, visual information design has become extremely important. Effective design leverages visual capabilities and is critical for clearly communicating key information ...

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