Tableau Community Spotlight: An Interview with Siddharth Dayama

Siddharth Dayama Bio Sid leads the Visual Analytics team in Customer Service Operations in Verizon where his team builds business intelligence and analytics dashboard solutions that democratize and distribute data in an intuitive and visual form to business leaders, helping them make data driven decisions. He was invited to speak and was recognized as one […]

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Stephen Few: Information Dashboard Design

Readers: I am in Portland, Oregon this week attending three data visualization workshops by industry expert, Stephen Few. I am very excited to be sitting at the foot of the master for three days and soak in all of this great dataviz information. Today, was the second workshop, Information Dashboard Design which is based on […]

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Stephen Few: Information Dashboard Design

Readers: I am in Portland, Oregon this week attending three data visualization workshops by industry expert, Stephen Few. I am very excited to be sitting at the foot of the master for three days and soak in all of this great dataviz information. Today, was the second workshop, Information Dashboard Design which is based on Steve’s best-selling […]

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Blurred Lines: A Tale of Two Dashboard (Contests)

Readers: This is an important read for anyone who works in the data visualization profession. I ask you to be reflective as you read this. I use myself as an example of what not to do. For the past two years (2013 and 2014), I have submitted an entry into the MicroStrategy World Dashboard Contest. […]

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Data Archaeology Selected as One of the 2014 MicroStrategy World Dashboard Contest Winners

Hello Readers: I recently found out I am one of the 2014 winners of the MicroStrategy World Dashboard Contest. I was also one of the winners last year. I get a free pass to MicroStrategy World in Las Vegas which is the last week of this month. Last year, they gave us awards too. Not sure […]

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Data Archaeology Selected as One of the 2014 MicroStrategy World Dashboard Contest Winners

Hello Readers: I just found out I am one of the 2014 winners of the MicroStrategy World Dashboard Contest. I was also one of the winners last year. I get a free pass to MicroStrategy World in Las Vegas which is the last week of this month. Last year, they gave us awards too. Not sure […]

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Stephen Few on Data Visualization and the Blind

Note: I was supposed to have attended Stephen Few’s three data visualization classes this week in Portland, but preparations for a client presentation in Paris next week made attending impossible. Dashboard Insight posted a synopsis of a post Stephen did on Data Visualization and the Blind. My wife has worked in Special Education for over […]

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Stephen Few’s New Book: Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring, Second Edition

Information Dashboard Design: Displaying data for at-a-glance monitoring, Second Edition, Stephen Few, $40.00 (U.S.), Analytics Press, 2013 The second edition of Stephen Few’s seminal book, Information Dashboard Design, will be released on August 15, 2013. I have been waiting for this book for some time and am very excited about its pending release. Here is a […]

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Apollo Group Wins Excellence in Dashboard Design Award at MicroStrategy World 2013

On Tuesday evening, January 29th, 2013, Apollo Group was bestowed the Excellence in Dashboard Design Award at MicroStrategy World 2013. Their entry, a Student Performance Dashboard, was based on portions of the top three entries in Stephen Few’s Dashboard Design Contest that was held last year. Unlike those entries in Stephen’s contest, which were designed […]

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