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
Dashboards By Example
Dashboard Examples and Business Intelligence Best Practices
Excel Tool Tips Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 8:40 am A Dashboard Spy reader wrote me to ask about adding comments to his Excel worksheets so that his users would be prompted to take certain input actions. He’s building a series of excel dashboards com. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Dashboards By Example - BI Dashboard Samples
Take a look at this business dashboard. Forgive me for saying so, but upon viewing this dashboard, I couldn’t help but think of Rube Goldberg Machines, those convoluted devices that take incredibly. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Dashboards By Example - BI Dashboard Samples
The Dashboard Spy Collection of Business Intelligence White Papers is now live. You can easily preview and select white papers from multiple vendors across industry categorizations. Case studies and f. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Dashboards By Example - BI Dashboard Samples
Juice Analytics
Here at top-secret Juice headquarters, some major new products are in the works, and we want to promote them with Google’s revenue powerhouse (also known as Google AdWords). Thus, after three weeks. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Juice Analytics: Agile Analytics
A few weeks ago, I received an e-mail from the folks at Widgenie asking for a blog review of their newly launched service. Widgenie targets non-technical people looking for an easy way to create and p. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Juice Analytics: Agile Analytics
Seth Godin, well-known marketing guru, took a strong and misguided stand against bar charts1 in a recent blog post entitled “The three laws of great graphs” Godin suggests that bar charts (and pre. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Juice Analytics: Agile Analytics
Category: Business Intelligence
Guru Kirthigavasan
Slicing Business Dicing Intelligence
Sensors everywhere. Infinite storage. Clouds of processors. Our ability to capture, warehouse, and understand massive amounts of data is changing science, medicine, business, and technology. As our co. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: The Business Intelligence Blog
Some progress on the healthcare BI Apps. Read more from dBusiness News. In the newly released benchmark report “Business Intelligence in Healthcare: Have Providers Found a Cure?,” Aberdeen Group,. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: The Business Intelligence Blog
From TMCNet - Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), has announced the availability of a new Pentaho iPhone application, saying that it provides native iPhone. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: The Business Intelligence Blog
Mark Cudmore
My education and early professional career was deeply rooted in the IT world. We worried about how to keep the database running efficiently, and the best way to build a reporting portal (in the old da. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: BI Brain
Almost all vendors have been moving to a consolidated web portal to expose BI assets to end users. I have to question the validity of making our users come to a portal when they clearly need to inte. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: BI Brain
In my post on Creating a Positive Future, I discussed the importance of understanding Business Intelligence requirements from the perspective of your end users. Once you understand the user experien. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: BI Brain
Category: Information Technology Management
Doug McClure
thoughts on business, service and technology operations and management
Just thinking out loud here… What’s it really take for a community to start and evolve? Who must participate? Who shouldn’t participate? Who should facilitate? How does the “What’s in it for. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: dougmcclure.net
Hopefully this OPAL whitepaper from one of our ATG folks makes our crazy TSRM - Netcool/OMNIbus integration a bit easier to understand and configure. I still really have no idea why we’ve taken the. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: dougmcclure.net
Links that I have found interesting for August 18th: EMC on IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) - Join Glenn O’Donnell, EMC principal product marketing manager, as he offers some practical, well-inform. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: dougmcclure.net
CIO.com
In the wake of IndyMac, and the failures of both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, banks are worrying more and more about tracking their spending and making ends meet, trying to achieve profitable accounts. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Advice and Opinion -
Working on a Web Consolidation/Integration project and looking for best practices and/or an accessment form that may be helpul in access current state environment for numerous disperate web systems. r. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Advice and Opinion -
An observation about government politics in The Times yesterday might equally be true of business. However, investing in the appearance of change may be either the friend or enemy of real change…. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Advice and Opinion -
Category: Information Visualization
Stephen Few
A blog by Stephen Few
BonaVista Systems (the maker of the Excel add-in product MicroCharts), a subsidiary of XL Cubed, has announced the winners of its 2008 Excel Dashboard Competition. You might be surprised to discover h. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Visual Business Intelligence
Seth Godin invited a reaction last week when he ventured into unfamiliar territory by publishing a blog post entitled “The three laws of great graphs.” One story No bar charts Motion He was appare. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Visual Business Intelligence
The field of information visualization is still relatively young. The milestones that mark its history can be listed and briefly described with the exhalation of a single deep breath. Only a few infor. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Visual Business Intelligence
information aesthetics
form follows data - data visualization & visual communication
a new set of generative visual themes that are directly created from, & visually accompany poems. each theme can be interactively explored online. in the 2008 version, all words words in a poem based. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: information aesthetics
a visualization tool that is able to generate a wireless (WiFi, 802.11) heatmap based on signal strength. an obvious application is to find the best physical place or area to work wirelessly with the. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: information aesthetics
a Wiki-style global map of important debates that aims to visualize & deepen the understanding of the ways in which different debates are semantically interrelated. every debate map is provisional an. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: information aesthetics
Category: Project Management
Michael Krigsman
Rearranging the Deck Chairs: IT Project Failures
Why don’t more organizations recognize potential IT project problems before they escalate into full-blown failures? Companies reject good solutions to fix bad projects for three reasons: internal poli. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: IT Project Failures
High rates of IT project failure persist because most organizations don’t understand the real reasons why their projects fail. Don’t ignore the early warning signs of failure; they’re a loud siren if. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: IT Project Failures
According to an interesting post in CIO Magazine, recent price increases by both SAP and Oracle were made possible by implementation complexity and the difficulty of replacing existing systems. CIO ex. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: IT Project Failures
Thomas Cutting
For the past few weekends I have been pulling together training material to cover Project Initiation, Tracking and Reporting for HP’s Project and Program Management tool (PPM). Not the most inventiv. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Cutting’s Edge Project Management
Our house recently went through some medium size renovations. It began with replacing the hot water heater with a tankless model. During the installation the plumber explained that our galvanized pipe. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Cutting’s Edge Project Management
While on vacation I am pulling together a chunk of my blog entries to publish in book format entitled Project Management RX: 101 Daily Doses. This hasn’t left me much time to sit down and write anyt. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Cutting’s Edge Project Management
Category: Content
A List Apart
A List Apart Issue 265
Because of limited awareness around Deafness and accessibility in the web community, it seems plausible to many of us that good captioning will fix it all. It won’t. Before we can enhance the user e. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: A List Apart
The web is a conversation, but not always a productive one. Web discussions too often degenerate into whines, jabs, sour grapes, and one-upmanship. How can we transform discussion forums and comment s. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: A List Apart
KPI Library
Where good KPI definitions meet.
Balance expressed as a ratio of the outcome of an escalated problem. Ideally a higher RFC is better than either a high KE or Other.
Dashboard Expert Source: KPI Library
It measures the time from a demand changes through a MRP platform suggesting to take an action and the proper accomplishment of during day to …
Dashboard Expert Source: KPI Library
Optimize Load Fulfilment (OLF) % to the carrier. formula, (actual load : standard pay load of carrier–> in cubic or weight) X 100% = ………% Firstly, …
Dashboard Expert Source: KPI Library
Category: Excel Dashboards
Jon Peltier
PTS Charts and Stuff
In Plot your data around the clock, Chandoo proposed a complicated bubble chart to show website traffic vs. time of day. I thought it was daring of Chandoo to try such a unique treatment of the data,. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: PTS Blog
Chandoo saw a post at Smashing Magazine showing Top 10 creative ways to display time, and he took a crack at duplicating a polar clock using an Excel donut chart. Chandoo did a fine job with his copy. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: PTS Blog
A college science professor named Roger Blickensderfer wrote to me about an animation he was working on. He wanted to trace the path followed by a point on the rim of a rolling wheel. Roger had cobble. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: PTS Blog
Jorge Camoes
When Tufte meets Excel
Meet me Here Sunday, 17 August 2008, 7:16 pm I’ll be here for the next 15 days. Great beach, air temperature and water temperature around 25ºC (77ºF), perfect for everyone that hates hot weather and cold water (that would be me). Best of all. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Jorge Camoes’ Charts
I’m a consensus kind of guy, I can’t help it. I always try to find the best parts of not-so-good things (a Curate’s egg syndrome?). Let me give you an example. One of the reasons why people like. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Jorge Camoes’ Charts
One of the reasons why information visualization in business is so poor is because many managers are clueless about it. They really believe that a simple training course on Office tools is more than e. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Jorge Camoes’ Charts
Category: Usability
Mark Hurst
Our mission is to encourage the creation of good, meaningful experiences in business and life.
From the This Is Broken group on Flickr - if it requires a detailed instruction card to set the alarm, the design is broken. I’m often amazed by the poor design of common tools. We’ve had digital al. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Good Experience
Khoi Vinh, who heads up design at NYTimes.com, complains about most “productivity” systems today - and he’s exactly right: I no longer find the kind of satisfaction that I used to in laying the ground. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Good Experience
Because of a tech glitch, Netflix stopped shipping DVDs for three days last week. But customers took it in stride, because Netflix “got ahead of the disaster, put a profuse and prominent apology on it. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: Good Experience
Pabini Gabriel-Petit
Insights and inspiration for the user experience community
By Jonathan Follett Published: August 18, 2008 The common wisdom is that we now live in the age of information; the freedom and access we have to data is unprecedented in history; and the efficiency a. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: UXmatters
By Steve Baty Published: August 18, 2008 The number one enemy of any strategy is poor execution. All across the business landscape, the ability of an organization to execute its strategy is one of the. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: UXmatters
By Colleen Jones Published: August 4, 2008 User interface designers have more interactive options than ever for presenting content. So, we can make meaningful strides toward offering users the right c. […]
Dashboard Expert Source: UXmatters
Dashboard Experts - Web Resources for Digital Dashboarding
Digital Dashboard Examples
The Dashboard Spy - The original collector of enterprise dashboard screenshotsDashboards 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 examplesLive dashboard examples - Visual Mining
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 NielsenUsable Markets - markets, design, usability, research - Alex KirtlandUX Matters - Pabini Gabriel-Petit and TeamGood Experience - Mark HurstThe 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 groupInformation Aesthetics - Data Visualization & Visual Design - Andrew Vande MoereVisual Business Intelligence - Stephen Few, author of Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data The Agile Analytics Weblog - Juice Analytics
Project Management / IT Management / Enterprise Software
dougmcclure.net - Doug McClure on Business, Service and Technology Operations and ManagementAdvice & Opinion from CIO.com - CIO.com conversationsIT Project Failures - Michael KrigsmanCutting’s Edge Project Management - Nearly random project management insights from Thomas CuttingProject Steps - Stephen SeayWorkflow IQ - Work Smarter - Patrick GauthierThe Intranet Blog - Toby Ward on Intranet Best PracticesJoel on Software - Joel SpolskyAndy on Enterprise Software - Andy HaylerWeb 2.X Blog - jymloke
Business Intelligence
The Business Intelligence Blog - Guru KirthigavasanBI Brain - Mark CudmoreAdvice & Opinion from CIO.com - CIO.com conversationsb-eye - Business Intelligence NetworkBI-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
Web 2.0/RIA Technologies
Enterprise Web 2.0 - Dion HinchcliffeThe Universal Desktop - Ryan StewartManage by Walking Around - Jonathan D. Becher
Performance Management Dashboards
Closing the Intelligence Gap - Gary ConkinsCraig Schiff on Business Performance Management - Craig SchiffCorporate Performance Management - The Next Step - DeloitteThe Performance Guys - Guy, Nic, & PatManage by Walking Around - Jonathan D. Becher
Content
meryl.net - Meryl K. Evans, Content MavenCopyblogger - Brian ClarkGrammar Girl - Mignon FogartyEnter 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 Hamelinstant cognition - Clint Ivy
Business Objects Dashboards
Business Objects Blog - Unknown BO DeveloperBusiness Objects Board - BOB
Eclipse/BIRT Dashboards
Eclipse Hints & Tips - Wayne BeatonPlanet Eclipse - Aggregation of Eclipse Experts
Excel Dashboards
Jon’s Excel and Chart Pages - Jon PeltierPointyHairedDilbert - Excel Tips, Technology Tidbits & Business Insights - ChandooMicrosoft Excel Team Blog - Microsoft pros deep-dive into Excel functionality tipsExcel Training Video Tutorials - Michael Alexander of Excel 2007 Dashboards & Reports For Dummies Jorge Camoes’ Charts - Excel dashboard tutorialsExcel User - Charles W. Kyd
InfoCaptor Dashboards
Dashboards, Applications & Business Intelligence - Nilesh JethwaInfoCaptor Blog - infocaptor.com
Flex/Flash Dashboards
RIApedia - Mike PotterFlex Examples Blog - Peter deHaan.Forest and the Trees - Data Visualization with Doug Marttila.Doug McCune’s Blog - Doug McCuneQuietly Scheming - Ely GreenfieldBrightworks Flex Reference - Douglas MacCarollFlex Pearls - Sreenivas Ramaswamy
MicroSoft Office/SharePoint/CRM/PerformancePoint/etc Dashboards
SharePoint Team Blog - SharePoint Product GroupSharePoint Designer Team Blog - SharePoint DesignerA SharePoint Sr. Technical Product Manager’s Blog - Paul AndrewMark Harrison’s Blog - Mark Harrison on Silverlight, Expression, Office and more.Microsoft CRM Dashboards - Sonoma PartnersMauro Cardarelli - Delivering High Impact Collaboration & Business Intelligence through Microsoft TechnologiesVantage Point - Notes from the Microsoft Technology Center - Bob GermanInformation Worker Blog - Scott JamisonArpan Shah’s Blog on SharePoint Technology - Arpan ShahPerformancePoint Server Blog - NormMicrosoft Office PerformancePoint Server Forums - Microsoft TechNetAlan Whitehouse’s Ramblings - Alan Whitehouse, Solution ArchitectDan English’s BI Blog - Random Thoughts, MS-centricPerformancePoint Team Blog
Oracle Dashboards
Oracle Business Intelligence Blog - Contributions from practitionersBusiness Intelligence - Oracle - Venkatakrishnan J, Business Intelligence EnthusiastOracle OLAP - Keith LakerOracle Blogs - Listing of blogs by Oracle executives, employees and non-employees.RittmanMead Blog - Mark Rittman and Jon MeadOracle 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 BridgeSalesforce.com Blog - Official
SAS Dashboards
Robert Allison’s SAS/Graph Examples - Expert on dashboarding with SAS
Xcelsius Dashboards
Interactive Data Visualization - Ryan GoodmanThe Xcelsius Journal - Loren Abdulezer and Michael AlexanderXcelsius Basics, Tips and Tricks at DataPig Technologies - Michael Alexander, author of Crystal Xcelsius For Dummies Crystal Xcelsius Dashboarding - Kalyan VermaSWF Dashboard Examples - Forward LabsCrystal Excelsius Forum - Business Objects BoardJim Bytes - Doing I.T. in Dublin!
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Recent Dashboard Spy Video
The following is an excerpt from the latest Dashboard Spy Video. Occasionally, The Dashboard Spy puts together a video capture of an interactive graphic or dashboard for readers that don’t have the required components at their work place to view a particular interactive dashboard. You’ll find these videos distributed among the daily posts from The Dashboard Spy.
Olympic Medal Count Visualization from the NY Times
This example of a time-based bubble chart shows the relative numbers of olympic medals won by country by year. What is a bubble chart? Take a look at this:
The size of the bubble indicates the importance of the value - in this case, the higher the medal count, the bigger the bubble.
The animated nature of these flash-based dashboards and data visualization graphics allow for intuitive analysis, especially for understanding trends over long periods of time. Go to the NY Times Infographic and drag the time slider left and right to get a sense of the value of this sort of display.
Visit the Olympics Medal Count Map at the New York Times site, or watch this Dashboard Spy video below.
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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Includes scorecards, trends,projections,rollup and drill through analysis reports. information is displayed as gauges, bell curves, charts and graphs.
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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