Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data

Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
Stephen Few (Author)
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Dashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information at a glance. Although dashboards are potentially powerful, this potential is rarely realized. The greatest display technology in the world won't solve this if you fail to use effective visual design. And if a dashboard fails to tell you precisely what you need to know in an instant, you'll never use it, even if it's filled with cute gauges, meters, and traffic lights. Don't let your investment in dashboard technology go to waste.

This book will teach you the visual design skills you need to create dashboards that communicate clearly, rapidly, and compellingly. Information Dashboard Design will explain how to:

• Avoid the thirteen mistakes common to dashboard design
• Provide viewers with the information they need quickly and clearly
• Apply what we now know about visual perception to the visual presentation of information
• Minimize distractions, cliches, and unnecessary embellishments that create confusion
• Organize business information to support meaning and usability
• Create an aesthetically pleasing viewing experience
• Maintain consistency of design to provide accurate interpretation
• Optimize the power of dashboard technology by pairing it with visual effectiveness

Stephen Few has over 20 years of experience as an IT innovator, consultant, and educator. As Principal of the consultancy Perceptual Edge, Stephen focuses on data visualization for analyzing and communicating quantitative business information. He provides consulting and training services, speaks frequently at conferences, and teaches in the MBA program at the University of California in Berkeley. He is also the author of Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten.

• Rank: #3594 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.96" h x .59" w x 8.46" l, 1.82 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Dashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information at a glance. Although dashboards are potentially powerful, this potential is rarely realized. The greatest display technology in the world won #039;t solve this if you fail to use

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Exchange Server is Microsoft s flagship project It is common for firms to choose Windows over other Operating Systems just so they can use Exchange Server Most enterprise installations especially those with remote or mobile employees create custom collaborative Outlook and Exchange applications for groupware salesforce automation and project management Exchange Outlook Programming is divided into four sections that build upon one another first by establishing a base Why build collaborative solutions then by laying out the tools that can be used to build collaborative solutions The third section helps to establish how we should plan and design effective collaborative solutions Finally the fourth section provides insight and knowledge on the exact methods of using our tools to develop and rollout typical workflow/collaborative solutions Business has everything to do with collaboration which is why it pays for organizations to devote resources to development of customized environments that are based on Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Outlook Taken together say Joel Semeniuk and Duncan Mackenzie in Exchange Outlook Constructing Collaborative Solutions these two flexible pieces of software can provide workers with all of the information they need to do their jobs effectively Toward that end this book presents a comprehensive look at Exchange and Outlook customization by using Visual Basic for Applications VBA and other Microsoft technologies Read this one for ideas on what you can do with Outlook and recipes for getting the job done Code listings appear frequently in this book but explanatory text is the main attraction The authors idea seems to be that if they tell you which system elements talk to which others and how the communication takes place you can write your own code to take advantage of the situation To help you along they include full statements on how they arrived at solutions for typical Exchange and Outlook problems such as customizing the appearance of Web pages that are generated by Outlook Web Access OWA A reference to the Collaborative Data Objects CDO object model concludes this book and should prove helpful to programmers who are working on projects David Wall Topics covered Customizing Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Exchange 2000 by using Visual Basic for Applications VBA Component Object Model COM modules and other programming techniques In large part this book is a survey of hooks a look at the places where Outlook and Exchange allow customizations There s detailed coverage of Outlook Web Access OWA forms development Messaging API MAPI and the digital dashboard concept

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