Big Data, Small Dashboard

Andrea Maietta

MILAN 25-26 NOVEMBER 2016

#smalldashboard

Big data

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Who controls the past controls the future

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Need input!

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Input? We have plenty

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We want information… information… information…

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What is a dashboard?

A metaphor

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A definition by Stephen Few

THE rule: communicate effectively

Anscombe’s quartet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe's_quartet

Anscombe’s quartet

Russian campaign

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Happiness vs change requests

Avoid clutter

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Does that ring a bell?

Does that ring a bell?

Does that ring a bell?

Stories from the trenches: 3D histogram in Excel

Can you decipher the graph?

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It gets worse…

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…and worse

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Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

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Stories from the trenches: School of Management

Average pay rise (?!?)

Professional areas

Areas of origin

Previous education

How much this graph reminds me of Mr. T

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Stories from the trenches: Illustrator tutorial

Graphing batting data

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From this…

http://creativepro.com/illustrator-how-to-no-more-boring-graphs-ever/

…to this

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You may be wondering…

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A case study

The context

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The dashboard

Overall evaluation

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Highlighted non data pixels

Wrong use of most relevant space

Scrolling required

Table requires (a lot of) scrolling

Chartjunk

A 3D pie chart

Pointless use of colors

Pointlessy highlighted tables

Wrong media

Pointless duplication

Missing context

Out of this darkness and into the day

Let’s fix this thing!

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We need a suitable language

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Edward Tufte

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The cognitive style of power point

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John Wilder Tukey

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Wilder Tukey != Wild Turkey

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Stephen Few

http://www.bi-podium.nl/mediaFiles/workshops/45_ori_new_stephen_few_tow_day_workshop_show_me_the_numbers.jpg

What to include?

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It depends

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Chartjunk

Chartjunk

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A 3D pie chart

A 3D pie chart

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Pointless duplication

Pointless duplication

Remove duplication

Change media type

Remove highlighted non data pixels

Remove more highlighted non data pixels

Remove label

Remove noise

Add data

Remove duplication

Change sort order

Clarify

Add data

Our journey

Pointless duplication

Pointless use of colors

Feels like I’ve been here before

Remove pointless use of colors

Simplify… or don’t

Everything should be made as simple as possibile, but not simpler

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Missing context

Missing context

Answers within time limit

Add another dimension

Highlight points of attention

Don’t alter meaning

Box plot

A little aside: think Wayne Gretzky

http://www.esthockey.ee/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/best-hockey-players.jpeg

Edmonton Oilers 1985-86 Stats

http://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/teams/edmonton-oilers-players-1985-86-nhl-stats.html

With or without you: a comparison

With or without you: a comparison

Know your data!

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Back to our batting stats

http://creativepro.com/illustrator-how-to-no-more-boring-graphs-ever/

Who’s been the best?

Who’s improving?

Remove wasted space

Both things at once

Let’s see some good stuff

A Sales Dashboard by Stephen Few

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Where to go from here

Wax on, wax off

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All valley championship final

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Improve, then improve again

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Maybe there's more to life than being really, really, really ridiculously good looking?

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At my signal, unleash knowledge!

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Q & (hopefully) A

Don’t be shy!

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Suggested readings

Don’t judge a book by its cover

Suggested readings

Suggested readings

Suggested readings

Suggested readings

Suggested readings

Suggested readings (technology related)

Big Data, Small Dashboard

Andrea Maietta

MILAN 25-26 NOVEMBER 2016

@andreamaietta

amaietta@gpawidegroup.com

#smalldashboard