6 Best Practices for Creating Effective Dashboards

Dashboards are an effective tool for distilling data into actionable insights; still they’re often an overlooked and underutilized tool. In order to see and understand the complete picture and make fast, data-driven decisions, you’ll need to build dashboards that can show you what’s really happening across many sets of data, correlate patterns across multiple metrics, and provide both a summary and in-depth views of performance.

Well-planned dashboards can align your organizations efforts, speed up decision-making, track performance outcomes, and increase ROI. Yet too often, mistakes are made with actual creation of dashboards.

These 6 best practices for creating effective dashboards from Tableau help you build dashboards that can show you what’s really happening across many sets of data – correlate patterns across multiple metrics and provide your with both, a summary and in-depth view of performance.