A quick example of a dashboard that connects to Netflix’s Odata catalog of movies. This shows all of the TV and Movie Titles available for instant viewing. Select a range of ratings, classifications, and film title to see the film’s synopsis. There are a few actions on this dashboard that filter and connect to the …
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Tableau as a Dashboard (Take Two)
I’ve posted before about using Tableau as a dashboard platform – my first attempt was a ‘show and tell’, but didn’t conform to a particular user story and had limited dimensions available in the dataset. This updated version has a better dataset behind it, but also uses some new features of Tableau 6.0 such as …
Embedding Excel Workbooks (could easily be a dashboard)
Microsoft web apps are advancing nicely now – you are no longer tied to Facebook as the way to share documents – you can use Microsoft’s Skydrive. You can also embed documents, as shown below. I’ve recreated a table from an organization called the Third Way, “the leading moderate think-tank of the progressive movement”, apparently. …
Tableau as a Dashboard Platform
While recently at the Tableau User Conference, I wondered about the feasibility of using Tableau to produce ‘proper’ dashboards – that is, a dashboard with sparklines, and the right level of information, not just four revving gauges and a 3D pie chart.. I chose to (mostly) recreate the dashboard that I created in Excel for …
PowerPivot: A video introduction from MrExcel
Bill Jelen, aka MrExcel has written the first book on Microsoft’s new PowerPivot. PowerPivot is a the Office 2010 solution to link Excel to millions of rows of data held on databases or large text files. PowerPivot will ensure that Excel remains a useful, and perhaps even more serious, dashboard tool. I found this video …
If your sales dashboard tells you that sales are down, but not why, you don’t have a dashboard
I tweeted the following a while back: If your sales dashboard tells you that sales are down, but not why, you don’t have a dashboard It’s worth expanding on this a little more than the 140 characters allowed on Twitter. What do I mean by this? Simply, if your dashboard shows key performance indicators, or …
Using Google Chart API to create dashboards and sparklines
A few posts back I talked about using a plugin to the jquery javascript library to create sparklines in blog posts. One of my readers suggested using Google’s chart api to instead create the sparklines. From Google: What is the Google Chart API? The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts with a URL …
Web-deployed dashboards without Flash or expensive BI tools (Protovis)
I discussed recently about how new javascript libraries (especially Protovis) have the potential to revolutionize information delivery to the web. As I haven’t seen any examples of these libraries being used to create a dashboard, I thought I’d be the first. This is my first iteration (click for the big, real version) – don’t read anything into the choice …
Dashboard seminar – mark your calendars
I’m sure most readers of my blog will know Jon Peltier’s business, and his excellent Excel/charting blog: Peltier Technical Services. Jon and I are teaming up to present a day-long training session on Excel Charting and Dashboarding. This training will take place on Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Westborough, MA, in the Route 495 …
