Course: Reporting, Analytics & Dashboard Management
ID: 1384-RADM1D
CDUs/Contact Hrs / PDUs: 14
Course Length: 2 Days
Course Objectives:
How to target the message to the audience
Which visuals work best with which audiences
Learn to create vivid visualizations that truly tell a story for
your audience
Learn the common problems of dashboard design
Learn to avoid clutter and communicate precisely and
consicely
Target Audience: Project managers, business
analysts, systems analysts, technical managers, and software
developers who wish to learn the tools and techniques of
effective communication, dashboard design and
development, and quantitative analysis.
Prerequisites: Experience in creating or
reading standard business reports and analysis is
strongly recommended.
Provided Material:
Course Binder
Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few (Book)
Course Outline:
Lesson 1: A Basic overview
How we communicate information
The dangers of e-mail
Why are numbers so important
The fundamental problems of data presentation
Key Performance Indicators
Linking data to strategy
Lesson 2: Graphs
The basics of graphs
Seven common quantitative relationships in graphs
The impact of visual perception
The basic visual design process
Highlighting data in visual design
Effective use of visual objects to convey information
Aligning visual objects to quantitative relationships
Lesson 3: Tables
Table basics
What makes a well designed table
When are tables effective
Working together, tables & graphs
Lesson 4: The dashboard defined
What is a dashboard
Why use a dashboard
The target audience of dashboards
The current state of dashboards
Lesson 5: Dashboard design basics
Best practices in dashboard design
Core challenges in dashboard design
Few's 13 mistakes in dashboard design
Lesson 6: The steps in dashboard design
The basic process of dashboard design
Steps to enrich a dashboard's meaning
Dashboard display mechanisms, when how & why