Business Reporting, Visual Analytics & Dashboard

Business Reporting, Visual Analytics & Dashboard

1. Principles of Visual Perception

   • Enclosure
     • Objects enclosed are percieved as belonging together
   • Proximity
     • Objects close to one another
   • Closure
     • Open structure perceived as closed, complete or regular when we can reasonably do so
   • Continuity
     • Objects belonging together if they are aligned with on another
   • Similarity
     • Group objects similar in
       • Shape
       • Size
       • Colour
       • Orientation
   • Connection
     • Perception of grouping through connection

2. Steps to visual dashboard design

   • Enhance data pixels
     • Highlight the most important data pixels that remain
     • Eliminate all unnecessary data pixels
   • Reduce non-data pixels
     • Eliminate all unnecessary non-data pixels
     • De-emphasize and regularize the non-data pixels that remain

3. Types of Business Reports

   • Metric Management Reports
   • Dashboard-Type Reports
     • Strategic Purposes
       • High level measures of performance
         • Forecasts
         • Indicator of performance
         • Contxtual information
     • Operational
       • Constantly changing enivronment
       • Grab attention immediately to abnormalies
     • Analytical
       • Show patterns
       • Support intertactions
       • Sophisticated display media
     • Types of Graphs
       • Specialized
         • Geographic Map
         • Heat map/ Tree Map
         • Gantt Chart
         • PERT Chart
         • Bullet Graph
         • Highlight Table
         • Histogram
       • Basic
         • Pie Chart
         • Scatter Plot
         • Bar Chart
         • Line Chart
         • Bubble Chart
   • Balanced Scorecard-type reports

4. Organise information to support its meaning  and use

5. Visual Perception in Pre-attentive processing

   • Color
     • Calm
     • Attention Grabbing
   • Position
   • Motion
   • Form

6. Principles for Dashboard Design

   • Include only information that is needed
   • Condense information
   • Display infomation that can be understood easily
   • Customize dashboard for audience and objective

7. Expression of data

   • Non-quantitative Dashboard Data
     • Top 10 Customers, Schedules,Due Dates,Issues to be investigated
   • Enrichment through
     • Comparison
       • This year vs Last Year
     • Evaluation
   • Variations in Timing
     • Year/Quarter/Month/Week

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