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What Will Your Dashboard Show? Ideas for Dashboard Content
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Narrow Down the Dashboard's Focus with the Dashboard Cheat Sheet (4:53)
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Compare Categories (Bars) (1:32)
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Compare Categories (Stacked Bars) (2:56)
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Compare Categories (Heat Tables) (2:30)
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Before/After (Deviation Bars) (2:52)
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Monitor Changes Over Time (Trend Lines) (1:53)
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Track Progress Towards Goals (Progress Bars) (3:18)
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Combo: Trend Lines and Bars (3:58)
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Combo: Checkboxes and Deviation Bars (1:26)
Monitor Changes Over Time
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Intro & Materials (1:48)
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Step 1: Declutter the Table (4:17)
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Step 2: Add the Visuals (7:48)
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Step 3: Add Markers or a Dark-Light Contrast (4:02)
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Step 4: Brand with Custom Fonts and Colors (1:31)
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Step 5: Add a Title, Subtitle, and Date (5:28)
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Step 6: Apply a Text Hierarchy (3:29)
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Step 7: Add Icons (4:46)
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Step 8: Get the Dashboard Ready to be Printed or PDF'd (2:15)
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Step 9: Adjust the Orientation (1:15)
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Step 10: Adjust the Margins (1:15)
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Step 11: Adjust the Page Breaks (4:09)
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Step 12: Add a Footer with the Page Numbers (4:14)
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Step 13: Save the Completed Dashboard as a PDF (12:57)
Compare Categories with Bars or Stacked Bars
Compare Categories with Heat Tables
Before/After Comparisons with Deviation Bars
Track Progress Towards Goals with Progress Bars
Combo: Trend Lines and Bars
Combo: Checkboxes and Deviation Bars
Case Studies
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A Library's Quarterly Report (8:00)
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A Library's Monthly Report (5:52)
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Visualizing Workshop Evaluation Results in a Short Report (10:50)
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Visualizing Annual Survey Results in a One-Pager (12:26)
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Reenvisioning a University’s Dashboard: Two Dashboards with Two Different Purposes
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8 Ideas for Visualizing Change Over Time: A Newspaper's Case Study (17:54)
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Public Health Outcomes (39:44)
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Government Spending Over Time (29:41)
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Visual Appendices (58:58)
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Additional Case Studies from the 2020 Cohort's Graduation Party (35:54)
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Homeowners' Association Data (60:24)
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Rebecca L.'s Monthly CARES Dashboard (47:23)
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Heather's Two Fundraising Dashboards (56:00)
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Additional Case Studies from the 2022 Cohort's Graduation Party (35:34)
1:1 Consultations with Your Colleagues
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