Mashup Technology Means Exciting Enterprise Dashboards
I just came from an enterprise dashboard project kickoff meeting where the business sponsor for the dashboard gave me an edict that I really enjoyed. She said to make the dashboard “sexy and cheap”. When I stopped laughing and asked what she meant, she pointed me towards her latest interest - web-based mashups. She follows examples of dashboard mashups (Programmable Web) and encouraged me to do the same. Take a look at this sample mashup - census demographics dashboard:
You’ve really got to try out the dashboard to get a sense of the interactivity and the controls. Quite a nice feel. The dashboard is a mashup of zip code information and census data to give the user the ability to slice the data by zip code and view the associated map information, population statistics and breakdown of the demographics (such as age, household and ethnic distribution).
Here is a look at other views of the census data:
Try it out with your own zipcode!
