How to build Excel Dashboards – 5

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Add Date Hierarchy Columns
Most of the data, has some form of date information. Now date is very granular information. Very often, to generate trending information, you need to derive year and month columns.

In the dashboard designer, you can easily generate Date hierarchy columns for any kind of reporting.

In [...]

Freedom of Information Act dashboard

The Department of Justice will create a Freedom of Information Act dashboard to visually demonstrate the progress made by government agencies in processing FOIA requests
http://www.justice.gov/open/plan.html
According to the plan, the DOJ Office of Public Affairs will post court filings as soon as they are filed to make them more accessible to the public.
“The public will often [...]

Warehouse Management Dashboard

The Warehouse Management dashboard features content relating to operational efficiency of a warehouse and capacity utilization. You can view data relating to outbound shipments, such as number of picks, pick release to ship cycle time and pick exceptions, putaway cycle time for incoming material, operation plan performance, and the amount of the warehouse storage that [...]

The buzz about Dashboards – Quick links 1

One of the delicate balances of modern technology is delivering all the relevant information in such a way that it can be taken in at a glance – akin to the car dashboard – while still concentrating on the mission-critical task at hand. Last week we covered the latest advances for the information-intensive battlefield and [...]

Wiki Dashboard

Wikipedia pleased to announce the release of our first research prototype of a social dynamic analysis tool for Wikipedia called WikiDashboard.
The idea is that if we provide social transparency and enable attribution of work to individual workers in Wikipedia, then this will eventually result in increased credibility and trust in the page content, and therefore [...]

Washington DC Launches Performance Dashboard

The site, called TrackDC, is part of an ongoing commitment by DC government to be more accountable to its constituents, Mayor Adrian Fenty said in a statement. Washington already offers an online data catalog (Data.dc.gov) and government statistics site (CapStat).
TrackDC provides performance data on approximately 50 government agencies. The site offers budget and spending information [...]

How did a PR firm win their Client’s heart with Dashboard

In public relations, one of the biggest things PR people are trying to justify is net worth of their campaigns.
And when you get into tight economic periods, fuzzy metrics don’t cut the mustard. We were looking for a way that would prove that if you had to cut the PR budget, the company would feel [...]

Software Project Dashboard

If you are done hating Dashboard Gauges let us move on to a different topic with no speedometers or thermometers (atleast for this Dashboard article).
Earlier we had given you What “Larry Ellison” is monitoring (oops..i just gave the clue). Don’t worry, if you are smart (and lazy) not to click on the above link here [...]

Why do you hate Gauges, Dials and Speedometers?

Recently, on a full moon night, a dashboard gauge appeared in my dream and made a plea which I have tried to put it back using my paint utility. The gauge was certainly sad and this post is to highlight the gauge emotions, nothing personal
Lot of Visualization Experts, (to name some, Stephen Few, [...]
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The White House Open Government Dashboard: Seeking Your Input

The government is seeking your feedback
On Tuesday, the Open Government Initiative published the new Open Government Directive. The Directive is not the first – only the latest – in a long timeline of open government milestones during the course of the last year. Since the President signed the executive memorandum on Transparency and Open [...]