Visual Analytics for Dashboards: A Step-by-Step Guide to Principles and Practical Techniques

Appendix

A chart presents the Hollywood movies with bar graphs, a line graph, a table, and pie charts. The graphs represent the number of movies by directors, worldwide gross distribution by E S R B rating, genre rating for I M D b and rotten tomatoes, and highest U S gross movie and their production budget.

Dissecting the Dashboard

This dashboard has many issues, which are listed here:

• Dashboard title:

  • No need to capitalize the title.

• Fonts for chart titles are inconsistent in:

  • Size.

  • Color.

• Horizontal bar chart:

  • There is unnecessary use of colored bars. Bar length or height is the best indicator of value and, in this case, the color indicates nothing.