Stephen Few Course: Dashboard Design for at-a-Glance Monitoring

Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 9:00am-4:00pm The Mirage, Las Vegas

Course Description:

Dashboards have become a popular means to present critical business information at a glance, but few do so effectively. When designed well, dashboards engage the power of visual perception to communicate a dense collection of information in an instant with exceptional clarity. This can only be achieved by applying visual design skills that address the unique design challenges of dashboards.

Learn these critical skills at an information dashboard design training session presented by Stephen Few, an author and leader in the field of data visualization. Stephen Few will expose the common problems in dashboard design and introduce effective dashboard design practices through examples that explain what works, what doesn’t, and why.

Huge IT investments are made to access and produce actionable information, only to have efforts fail at the very last stage of the process: the presentation of insights to those responsible for making decisions. Protect your investments and maximize your business and operational data by taking this course!

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What You Will Learn

  • Recognize the common problems in dashboard design
  • Match your message to the right means of display
  • Avoid clutter and arrange data in a way that communicates clearly and at a glance

Who Should Take the Course

  • People who design dashboards
  • People who need to understand the best practices of visual dashboard design to prepare for the evaluation of dashboard software

Course Content

  1. The current state of dashboards
  2. The definition and potential benefits of dashboards
  3. The fundamental challenges of dashboard design
  4. The 13 common mistakes in dashboard design
  5. The characteristics of well-designed dashboards
  6. Steps in the dashboard design process
  7. Common dashboard information and techniques for enriching its meaning
  8. Selecting appropriate media for displaying the data
  9. An ideal library of dashboard display mechanisms
  10. The best practices of dashboard design
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About Stephen Few

Stephen Few has more than 20 years of experience as an innovator, consultant, and educator in the fields of business intelligence (a.k.a. data warehousing and decision support) and information design. Through his company, Perceptual Edge, he focuses on the effective analysis and presentation quantitative business information. Stephen is recognized as a world leader in the field of data visualization. He teaches regularly at conferences such as those presented by The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) and DCI, and also in the MBA program at the Haas School of Business at U. C. Berkeley. His books include:

  • Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis
    (2009, Analytics Press)
  • Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
    (2006, O’Reilly Media)
  • Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
    (2004, Analytics Press)

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