The Dashboard Spy List of Experts
The Dashboard Spy’s list of Dashboard Experts gathers together best practices from the most interesting minds in business intelligence, information visualization, information technology and management. Whether you are a dashboard user, report designer, project manager, software coder, or business sponsor, you’ll find helpful resources from this collection dashboard experts.

Our list starts with a “Favorite Feeds” section that features recent article excerpts from the folks that the Dashboard Spy reads every day. After the feed section, you’ll find the list of experts categorized by subject matter.
Feel free to submit additions to this growing list. Send an email to info (at) dashboardspy.com or simply leave a comment below with the URL of the dashboard resource. Feel free to suggest additional categories for the list as well.
The Dashboard Spy’s Favorite Feeds - Latest Posts from Business Intelligence Experts
Category: Dashboard Design
Category: More Dashboard Design
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: More Business Intelligence
Category: Information Technology Management
Category: Information Visualization
Category: Project Management
Category: Content
Category: Excel Dashboards
Category: Usability
Dashboard Experts - Web Resources for Digital Dashboarding
Digital Dashboard Examples
- The Dashboard Spy - The original collector of enterprise dashboard screenshots
- Dashboards By Example Volume 1 - Volume 1 of The Dashboard Spy’s screenshot collection. What do a thousand business dashboard screenshots look like?
- The Dashboard Guy - Dashboard Spy Wannabe?
- Dashboard Insight - Dashboard articles and examples
- Live dashboard examples - Visual Mining
- Gilligan on Data - Tim Wilson
Usability
- Advanced Common Sense - Steve Krug - author of Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
- Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability - Jakob Nielsen
- Usable Markets - markets, design, usability, research - Alex Kirtland
- UX Matters - Pabini Gabriel-Petit and Team
- Good Experience - Mark Hurst
- The Usability Blog - Paul Sherman
Information Architecture
- Boxes and Arrows
- UX Matters - Pabini Gabriel-Petit and Team
Information Visualization
- Many Eyes - IBM’s Collaborative User Experience research group
- Information Aesthetics - Data Visualization & Visual Design - Andrew Vande Moere
- Visual Business Intelligence - Stephen Few, author of Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
- The Agile Analytics Weblog - Juice Analytics
- Wallpapering Fog - Data Monkey
Project Management / IT Management / Enterprise Software
- dougmcclure.net - Doug McClure on Business, Service and Technology Operations and Management
- Advice & Opinion from CIO.com - CIO.com conversations
- IT Project Failures - Michael Krigsman
- Cutting’s Edge Project Management - Nearly random project management insights from Thomas Cutting
- Project Steps - Stephen Seay
- Workflow IQ - Work Smarter - Patrick Gauthier
- The Intranet Blog - Toby Ward on Intranet Best Practices
- Joel on Software - Joel Spolsky
- Andy on Enterprise Software - Andy Hayler
- Web 2.X Blog - jymloke
User Experience
- Aaron Hursman - Great contributions from a user experience pro doing dashboard design.
UI Design & Prototyping
- I Heart Wireframes - Ivana Jurcic (I heart this site! Dashboard Spy)
Business Intelligence
- The Changing Face of BI - Lyndsay Wise
- The Business Intelligence Blog - Guru Kirthigavasan
- BI Brain - Mark Cudmore
- Blog: Shawn Rogers - Shawn Rogers
- Advice & Opinion from CIO.com - CIO.com conversations
- b-eye - Business Intelligence Network
- BI-lingual: Speaking the Language of Business Intelligence with a Microsoft Accent - Nick Barclay, author of The Rational Guide To Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
- MSFT BI Vertical Team Blog - Microsofties on the BI Vertical
Data Management
- The Data Heads - Evan Miller
Web 2.0/RIA Technologies
- Enterprise Web 2.0 - Dion Hinchcliffe
- The Universal Desktop - Ryan Stewart
- Manage by Walking Around - Jonathan D. Becher
Performance Management Dashboards
- Closing the Intelligence Gap - Gary Conkins
- Craig Schiff on Business Performance Management - Craig Schiff
- Corporate Performance Management - The Next Step - Deloitte
- The Performance Guys - Guy, Nic, & Pat
- Manage by Walking Around - Jonathan D. Becher
Content
- meryl.net - Meryl K. Evans, Content Maven
- Copyblogger - Brian Clark
- Grammar Girl - Mignon Fogarty
- Enter Content Here - Seth Gottlieb
Web Analytics
- Occam’s Razor - Avinash Kaushik, author of Web Analytics: An Hour a Day
- immeria: an immersion in web analytics - Stephane Hamel
- instant cognition - Clint Ivy
Business Objects Dashboards
- Business Objects Blog - Unknown BO Developer
- Business Objects Board - BOB
Eclipse/BIRT Dashboards
- Eclipse Hints & Tips - Wayne Beaton
- Planet Eclipse - Aggregation of Eclipse Experts
Excel Dashboards
- Jon’s Excel and Chart Pages - Jon Peltier
- PointyHairedDilbert - Excel Tips, Technology Tidbits & Business Insights - Chandoo
- Microsoft Excel Team Blog - Microsoft pros deep-dive into Excel functionality tips
- Excel Training Video Tutorials - Michael Alexander of Excel 2007 Dashboards & Reports For Dummies
- Jorge Camoes’ Charts - Excel dashboard tutorials
- Excel User - Charles W. Kyd
InfoCaptor Dashboards
- Dashboards, Applications & Business Intelligence - Nilesh Jethwa
- InfoCaptor Blog - infocaptor.com
Flex/Flash Dashboards
- RIApedia - Mike Potter
- Flex Examples Blog - Peter deHaan.
- Forest and the Trees - Data Visualization with Doug Marttila.
- Doug McCune’s Blog - Doug McCune
- Quietly Scheming - Ely Greenfield
- Brightworks Flex Reference - Douglas MacCaroll
- Flex Pearls - Sreenivas Ramaswamy
MicroSoft Office/SharePoint/CRM/PerformancePoint/etc Dashboards
- SharePoint Team Blog - SharePoint Product Group
- SharePoint Designer Team Blog - SharePoint Designer
- A SharePoint Sr. Technical Product Manager’s Blog - Paul Andrew
- Mark Harrison’s Blog - Mark Harrison on Silverlight, Expression, Office and more.
- Microsoft CRM Dashboards - Sonoma Partners
- Mauro Cardarelli - Delivering High Impact Collaboration & Business Intelligence through Microsoft Technologies
- Vantage Point - Notes from the Microsoft Technology Center - Bob German
- Information Worker Blog - Scott Jamison
- Arpan Shah’s Blog on SharePoint Technology - Arpan Shah
- PerformancePoint Server Blog - Norm
- Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server Forums - Microsoft TechNet
- Alan Whitehouse’s Ramblings - Alan Whitehouse, Solution Architect
- Dan English’s BI Blog - Random Thoughts, MS-centric
- PerformancePoint Team Blog
Oracle Dashboards
- Oracle Business Intelligence Blog - Contributions from practitioners
- Business Intelligence - Oracle - Venkatakrishnan J, Business Intelligence Enthusiast
- Oracle OLAP - Keith Laker
- Oracle Blogs - Listing of blogs by Oracle executives, employees and non-employees.
- RittmanMead Blog - Mark Rittman and Jon Mead
- Oracle Infogram - More than you can read!
- OBIEE - Technorati Page on OBIEE
Pentaho Dashboards
- Will Gorman’s Blog - a Pentaho developer
Salesforce.com Dashboards
- Lucid Era Blog - Darren Cunningham, Ken Rudin and Nate Bridge
- Salesforce.com Blog - Official
SAS Dashboards
- Robert Allison’s SAS/Graph Examples - Expert on dashboarding with SAS
- Automate BI - Neil Dulohery
Xcelsius Dashboards
- Interactive Data Visualization - Ryan Goodman
- MyXcelsius.com - Kalyan Verma
- The Xcelsius Journal - Loren Abdulezer and Michael Alexander
- Xcelsius Basics, Tips and Tricks at DataPig Technologies - Michael Alexander, author of Crystal Xcelsius For Dummies
- Crystal Xcelsius Dashboarding - Kalyan Verma
- SWF Dashboard Examples - Forward Labs
- Crystal Excelsius Forum - Business Objects Board
- Jim Bytes - Doing I.T. in Dublin!
- Everything Xcelsius - Xcelsius Gurus
Other Related Lists
- Recommended Links for Usability & UI Design - Paul Hibbitts’ resource list.
- 101 Great Blogs You Must Subscribe To (and How to Use Them) - Digital Alex’s mix of resources with an emphasis towards internet marketing.
- Meryl’s 175 Data & Information Visualization Examples & Resources - Meryl K. Evans, Content Maven. An exhaustive list of data viz resources.
- Web Analytics Conversations - A list of 115 feeds about web analytics from Stephane Hamel.
- 300 Blogs - 300 bloggers that inspire David Zinger.


If you know of a resource that you feel should be on this page, please leave a comment here with the URL.
I’ve found that Marketing NPV is an excellent site for developing marketing dashboards.
–Mike W.
http://www.marketingnpv.com/
Great list, and thanks for listing me side by side with Jon…
I would add a “Sparklines” category and of course include MicroCharts there: http://www.bonavistasystems.com
Their blog will be a valuable resource in the near future (and I post there too…): http://blog.xlcubed.com.
Thank you for adding me to your list of experts! I am honored and grateful.
Consider adding the podcast at http://www.ThePMPodcast.com to your list of listens.
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Thanks for linking to my 101 Great Blogs post.
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Cheers,
-Alex
I am writing an essay on executive dashboards - can an anyone tell me were I can get some links were I can see some essays or thesis about it?
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Please add our URL to your list of Xcelsius blogs. Thanks!
Sorry the URL is http://www.everythingxcelsius.com/
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