5 Dashboard Design Best Practices

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https://www.influxdata.com/ In an increasingly data-driven world, the ability to summarize and display data while making it easy to understand and actionable is more important than ever. The purpose of a properly designed dashboard is to consolidate all the information needed to achieve a specific objective.

These dashboards will generally have real-time, or near-real-time, updating displays so users can act quickly on changes in data.

Using proportion and relative sizing to display differences in data is another way to make data easier for viewers to quickly understand.

This can even be done unintentionally by using the wrong type of chart to display information.

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