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Dashboard Design Concepts

Learn the skills needed to create impactful dashboards. Understand dashboard design fundamentals, visual analytics components, and dashboard types.

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Course Description

Learn the Fundamentals of Dashboard Design

Dashboard Design Concepts is a comprehensive course designed for data-driven individuals who want to learn how to turn data into insights and impact the decision-making process.

Learn to Design the Perfect Dashboard

You will become familiar with the fundamentals of dashboard design, including how to choose the right performance metrics, use data visualization to effectively communicate insights, and design dashboards that drive business success. Whether you are new to dashboard design or looking to improve your existing skills, this course will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to create impactful and effective dashboards.

Create Dashboards That Make an Impact

You’ll start this course by covering some of the foundations of dashboard design, including the structure and key measurements to consider when building dashboards. As you progress, you’ll explore some of the principles of visual analytics, giving you the knowledge you need to improve your dashboards through data quality and metadata. After covering dashboard taxonomies, you’ll finish the course by learning about dashboard software and how to measure the performance of the dashboards you create.
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  1. 1

    The Building Blocks

    Free

    This course begins with introducing the fundamental concepts of dashboard design and structure. You will then learn how to define key measurements for the business performance dashboards and connect them to stakeholders who have an interest in the organization's decisions and goals.

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    Introduction to dashboards
    50 xp
    What type of format will you use?
    100 xp
    Monitor, analyze, and detail
    50 xp
    Key performance indicators
    50 xp
    KPI or OKR?
    100 xp
    Leading versus lagging indicators
    50 xp
    Stakeholders
    50 xp
    Internal or external stakeholders?
    100 xp
    Stakeholders and their roles
    100 xp
  2. 2

    Visual Analytics Components

    In this chapter, you’ll learn about dashboard design and the principles of visual analytics. You’ll also look at ways to improve the dashboard via data quality and metadata.

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    Dashboard design
    50 xp
    Exploratory or explanatory dashboard?
    100 xp
    Placing the most important information
    100 xp
    Dashboard-specific visualization techniques
    50 xp
    C.R.A.P design principles: organizing
    50 xp
    C.R.A.P design principles: triggering attention
    50 xp
    Gestalt design principle: improving perception
    50 xp
    Dos and donts in dashboard design
    100 xp
    Principles of visual analytics
    50 xp
    Comparison and causality
    100 xp
    Graph anatomy
    100 xp
    Data quality
    50 xp
    Data quality check
    50 xp
    Data quality dimensions
    100 xp
  3. 3

    Types of Dashboards

    Chapter 3 introduces dashboard taxonomies. You’ll also learn how to choose the right dashboard for particular situations.

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    Operational dashboard
    50 xp
    Operational dashboard KPIs
    50 xp
    Operational dashboard comparison
    50 xp
    Which operational dashboard should you use?
    100 xp
    Analytical dashboard
    50 xp
    Analytical dashboard components
    100 xp
    Anomaly detection
    50 xp
    Strategic dashboard
    50 xp
    Strategical dashboard components
    100 xp
    Strategic indicators
    50 xp
    Tactical dashboard
    50 xp
    Tactical HR dashboard
    100 xp
    Leadership role and dashboard
    100 xp
  4. 4

    Dashboard Success and Integration

    In the final chapter, you’ll learn about dashboard software, dashboard checklist, and how to measure the dashboard's success, impact, and adoption.

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    Choosing dashboard tools
    50 xp
    Cloud-based dashboard
    50 xp
    Drag-and-drop dashboard
    50 xp
    Dashboard checklist
    50 xp
    Three constructs: dashboard, developer, and user
    100 xp
    Story-telling using inverted pyramid
    50 xp
    Measuring dashboard success
    50 xp
    Which success metrics are the most important?
    50 xp
    Dashboard adoption
    50 xp
    Dashboard integration
    50 xp
    Dashboard access
    50 xp
    Sharing or non-sharing
    100 xp
    Congratulations!
    50 xp

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Dashboard Design Checklist

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Maarten Van den Broeck
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Carl Rosseel
Olga Scrivner HeadshotOlga Scrivner

President, Scrivner Solutions Inc

Olga Scrivner is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Software Engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and an Adjunct faculty in the Online Data Science program at Indiana University. She co-founded Scrivner Solution Inc, a consulting firm that specializes in providing AI-based solutions to healthcare organizations. She also circumnavigated the earth and visited all 7 continents and in her free time she runs the martial art dojo.
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