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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 [...]

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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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School – Student Dashboard – Bad – Good or OK?

This is a School dashboard showing various school related metrics Teacher Ethnicity Teacher Gender Students per grade Student Ethnic Analysis Now lets do a review of the design. Pie Charts – Since there are only two possible values in the pie chart it is OK but if you had to display a pie chart with [...]

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Bad Dashboard Design

As Stephen Few points out in this critical analysis of an Oracle Dashboard, here are the points to remember. Don’t just throw your resources, assemble the data sources to put together a dashboard, Paint them in un-necessary 3-D graphics and Glassy gradients. Some quick analysis summary All of the graphs use 3D to encode 2-D [...]

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Tree Dashboard-Marketing Overview- Finance overview-Products Overview-Supply chain

    Well This looks like more of a tree than any kind of Dashboard.Whats its place overe here? wondering The Contents are Home P.0 Marketing Overview Initiatives Finance overview Current Quarter Annual Forecast Budget Products Overview Branded Products Product focus co-Brand Products Co-Brand Product focus Supply chain Overview Re-stock and returns Inventory

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