Performance Dashboards for Healthcare – Benefits of KPI

Finding Value in KPI Performance Dashboards for Healthcare   Data backing is extremely important; measurable, accurate metrics more so. In industries, such as healthcare, metrics allow for better strategy formulation and implementation. Although it is not as easy to convert users of so-called tried and tested management methods, there is a chance of effecting change … Read more

Benefits and Use of Analytics for Higher Education

More institutions are now taking advantage of Analytical Dashboard Software, whether it be in the form of Excel Dashboard Software or Online Dashboards using some kind of SAAS service – study plans are developed based on data taken from students. Because of Analytics, courses have been tailor-made for classes, and one class is unique from … Read more

How to Use Visualization to Increase Engagement and User Experience

  If you give public presentations involving numbers and data, you already understand the underlying principle of dashboard visualization. You don’t illustrate your speaking with slides full of bare numbers, do you? You compile those numbers into charts or graphs to make them easily comprehensible to your audience. The same principle explains why dashboards are … Read more

Data Visualization of Pittsburgh’s Municipal Building Energy Usage

Photo by Dan Chmill, via Flickr creative commons. Energy Dashboard metrics for Pittsburgh Municipal buildings Today we get our hands busy analysing data from Pittsburgh Open data. Few months ago we did Chicago wifi usage visualization and this is our first attempt analysing our own city data. The very first thing we notice is that … Read more

5 Benefits of Dashboards in the Marketing Industry

What’s the first thing you look at when you flip on your computer screen in the morning? What’s the item you peek at on your phone even when your dinner partner wishes you’d leave work behind for the evening? For most people that addictive checking-tendency applies to their emails, but the truly business-savvy marketers are … Read more

A Lazy person’s bare minimum website traffic dashboard

Journey Begins Once you start your own business or startup, the very first thing that comes to mind is “How many visitors did my website receive?” Google Analytics provides tons of metrics and it becomes quite a chore to keep up with all the dashboard pages and filter options. As a small biz owner myself, … Read more

Do you spend too much time building reports with Google Analytics data?

How to streamline dashboard reporting with Google Analytics? There are lot of ways you can optimize your reporting with Google Analytics and I would like to bring your attention to a very powerful solution as described below. Our solution is not an Excel plugin but it is a packaged Datawarehouse. Let me assure and explain … Read more

How to draw a Sankey diagram

What is a sankey diagram? Sankey Diagram is kind of a flow chart that has multi-purpose use. It can be applied in lot of different domains. Even though they are popular to visualize manufacturing flow or energy flow diagrams, there are other domains like HR, Finance, Web analytics etc where you can find the benefit … Read more