DATA VISUALIZATION – ANALYTICS – EDUCATION
Adding parameter actions to your dashboards opens up a whole new world of design possibilities! In this post, I’ll demonstrate a way to change parameters by clicking on an icon (instead of the default drop-down or toggle), making use of parameter actions.
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When you get to explain a dashboard live to users, it’s easy to go over all the features. But what happens when you’re not around? One way to help users navigate your dashboard is to add a help overlay that pops up when they click a “help” icon on the dashboard. In this post, I’ll go over a simple method to add this overlay using Figma.
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This K-12 education dashboard shows student growth across a year on a standardized assessment. (The data shown is sample data, for demonstration purposes). The dashboard displays fall and spring results, progress towards a typical growth goal, and can be filtered by student and program characteristics.
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This K-12 education dashboard visualizes attendance in a district both on a single day basis (left side) and a longer term basis (right side). This dashboard was created using procedurally generated sample data, but is based on a real dashboard that I developed as an analyst in a school district.
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This dashboard visualizes results from a community engagement survey for a school district. (For demonstration purposes, this is using generated sample data, not real answers or demographics.) The word cloud on the right is fully filterable by clicking any segment or map dot on the left. For more about this technique, check out my article on the subject here.
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This visualization shows electric car adoption across Washington State. Data Source: Washington DOL
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My submission for Iron Viz 2022 (Theme: Games) explored the friendship-ruining power of Monopoly.
(Generated Sample Data)
Have you ever gotten to the end of presenting a gorgeous interactive dashboard only for an audience member to say, “Well, this looks great – but where do we download the spreadsheet with all this information?” (Just me?)
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The webpage dashboard item in Tableau has a nearly unlimited number of uses. One that clicked into place for me recently was the ability to embed surveys into dashboards to collect new information from users without the need for a third-party Tableau add on.
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Word clouds – randomly arranged collections of the most common words used in a text, where word size varies with how frequently it’s used – have a bit of a mixed reputation in data analytics circles. While the argument can certainly be made that there are more precise ways of showing word frequency, it’s also true that they’re an easy, user-friendly way to quickly pull out common ideas from a text. I recently used a word cloud to visualize responses to a community engagement survey, at the request of a stakeholder, and really enjoy how some of the most important recurring themes in the answers spring to the surface.
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