04 motivational analytics (not done)

dashboard

gives instant meaning and insight to thousands of data points

best way to understand data

visualization

well designed dashboards help convey

data driven insights

visualizations help

make informed decisions with more confidence

responsiveness

identify issues and resolve more quickly so to get projects back on track; able to identify positive trends as they emerge and capitalize on them

benchmarking

comparing own data to top performs in other organization or departments; provides context, help set meaningful targets, gain insight into trends occurring across industry, and find out how you are doing compared to your competition

a good test to determine how effective visualizations are

can you remove almost all or most of the numbers and still understand the visualizations and make comparisons

graphicacy

the ability to understand and present information in non-contextual formats (sketches, photographs, diagrams, maps charts, graphs)