Tag: Dashboards

Dashboards Are Dead: 3 Years Later

On April 9, 2020, I published an essay called “Dashboards are Dead”. I wrote it mainly to vent my pent-up frustrations as a data analyst, and yes, also to take on the most popular data tool at the time: the dashboard. To my surprise, a lot of people read it. Over 60,000 people in the ...

Are data dashboards vanity projects?

If you own a smartphone, you probably receive a notification about your phone’s weekly usage. If you open that notification, you will see a dashboard that shows usage graphs for your apps. At work, your organization may track sales, growth, and forecast in a colorful summary with a chart or tw...

10 great OKR dashboards to save hours at work

Making plans isn’t easy. Whether it’s finally catching up with your old friend from school or setting goals in business, we often put things off. Before you know it, a year has gone by with little accomplished. While we’re not experts in social theory, we know a thing or two abo...