{"id":9,"date":"2006-02-19T09:48:56","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-08-28T22:44:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T03:44:26","slug":"information-dashboard-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Information Dashboard Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=relaxandhavef-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0596100167%2Fqid%3D1140370661%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D283155\"><u><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Information Dashboard Design \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Effective Visual Communication of Data<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">, by Stephen Few.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">OK, this title included a lot of the information (verbatim) from Few\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <u><a href=\"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/2006\/02\/19\/show-me-the-numbers-by-stephen-few\/\">Show Me the Numbers<\/a>.<\/u>  It made sense to review it, given that he was again discussing effective visual communications.  If you only want to read one of the books and you have any interest in dashboards, I would just start with this one.   It teaches the same information on how and when to use tables and charts, plus it teaches you the specific design guidelines you need when working on dashboards.  I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read all of Tufte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work yet, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice to see some of his guidelines applied more specifically to electronic presentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"> Having read the book, I know a lot more about what works and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work in dashboards.  I have no idea how to build one though, as the book does not cover any construction methods in any software applications.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Information Dashboard Design \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Effective Visual Communication of Data, by Stephen Few.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">OK, this title included a lot of the information (verbatim) from Few\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Show Me the Numbers. It made sense to review it, given that he was again discussing effective visual communications. If you only want to read one of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}