Dashboards are reporting tools for visually analyzing key data points and tracking insightful metrics. Effective dashboards have layouts that distribute screen space proportionally, based on the reader's required attention for each chart. The chart type and its position on a dashboard affect the readability of data points and their meaning in the overarching story flow of the dashboard.
We have made many types of charts in our book, and our goal was to answer a set of related questions for each dataset. In this chapter, we'll try to organize the charts so that the dashboard is effective at coherently communicating those answers. We'll cover the following topics:
- Charts
- Dashboards