What you will be able to do
- Start a dashboard from the decisions it must support
- Choose a small set of indicators and the right comparisons
- Lay out a dashboard that can be read in a minute
- Set up a reliable update routine
Who it is for
- Planning, performance and statistics officers
- Managers who commission dashboards
- Analysts who build them
Prerequisites
- Comfort with spreadsheets
Program
Users and questions
- Who reads the dashboard and what they decide
- From questions to indicators
- One dashboard per audience
Content
- Targets, trends and comparisons
- Alerts and thresholds
- Commentary that explains the numbers
Design
- Layout and reading order
- Charts that suit each comparison
- Colour, labels and accessibility
Keeping it running
- Data sources and their owners
- An update routine and its checks
- Reviewing the dashboard after three months
How we work
- Redesign of a dashboard brought by participants
- Paper prototyping before any tool
- Building a dashboard in a spreadsheet on training data