Category Archives: Bad

Zoho employ’s artists to create Dashboards?

Past couple of weeks has been very exciting for us with the release of our first Wordpress Dashboard Plugin. Now let us get back to business of reviewing dashboards and we start with reviewing Zoho’s CRM Dashboard
Zoho is a very exciting company to watch and there is lot of talk about whether Zoho is stealing […]

Housing Dashboard | House Market Charts - Metrics | Visualcalc Housing Dashboard

Please see the commentary for a similar styled dashboard
Just one additional suggestion: If you are going to use a bar chart that is so closely stacked to each other then it is best to use a line chart instead. It is easy on eyes and makes much sense.
Charts

18 month home price index
Annual Interest rates
home price […]

Dashboard for University | College Dashboards | VisualCalc Education Dashboard

This dashboard follows the same style as discussed in this article so no more comments.
Here are the Chart details

College Degree Attainment
Math Proficiency by State
High School Degree proficiency
Reading proficiency by state

Education Dashboard | Visualcalc Dashboards Sample | College - Student - Teacher - Salaries

 

This is a sample dashboard from VisualCalc website.
Vow! what a wonderful Educational related dashboard!
Is that the reaction? Think before you react, check the charts and see if you can decipher any meaning out of it.
Ok, so what is missing from this wonderful dashboard?
Exactly, it has no legends. All charts in the dashboard do not have […]

EM7 - Bandwidht Dashboard -Enterprise -wide Bandwidth usage

Bandwidth Dashboard
Highest Average Network

The dark black color could had been avoided with more ligher shades for more pleasant looks.
MPS vs Applications

Enterprise -wide Bandhwidht usage,per hour

MPs vs period (days | hours )

Highest Average Network usage per hour ,last 7 days

MPS vs the program name.

Project Task Dashboard - CPI -SPI -Cost -Schedule Variance

Project Task Dashboard

CPI /SPI
Performance Summary
Cost /Schedule variance
Task Matrix

The Dashboard looks simple and good ,I wished if the scaleing number on the edges to be more bigger enough to be visible and be black in color text.
The Task Matrix looks quite ugly with the pink background .The Text in legend needs to be more visible.

TabWare Analytics Dashboard

List of KPI’s and Matrics for Tabware Analytics Dashboard.

Inventory

Procurement

Work backlog by Priority

Downtime trend

Project Budjet Status

Top 5 Bad Actors

for the Downtime Trend is very confusing to derive any results whats that looking like kind of Graphic Equilizer ? why would any one put the refrence line represented with Button like ,when it could be made simple […]

Dashboard for Service level KPI

 
List of KPI’s and Metrics for Service level Comparison.

Service Level
Utilization
Cash Collected
Idle time
service level details

sales
Collections
Service

Idle time :The Energy level style of graph doesnt make any sense.8% of what ? ( keep guessing)
Utilization : 87% of what ? ( incomplete information )
Service Level : 92 % of what ( I advise if they had mentioned the Max […]

Sales Dashboard Example - Bad colors

The use of colors is horrible. The dark blue gradient is un-necessary.
The use of three dimensional (3-d) line chart on the first chart is over-kill.
The Gross Margin % chart looks like a total mis-use of bar charts. This could be better represented by a simple line chart.
I guess this is one of the case where […]

Ugly Heat Map Dashboard

There is nothing much to comment about this dashboard except the obvious thing is the use of colors. The choice of colors is plain ugly and very tough on eyes. A softer shades of the same colors could deliver the same information with better aesthetics.

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