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This is great advice for anyone building a feature that utilizes visualization. I wish I had asked myself "what do users want to find?" instead of "what do use

• TeMPOraL 9y ago
  That's the reason I consider most contemporary dashboards to be useless and missing the point. The goal of a dashboard should be to give users insight, not to show them pretty pictures of moving lines and pies. You can find a lot of nice-looking dashboards on-line, for which the authors didn't even stop and consider why they're building it in the first place. It's easy to spot them, those are ones with pretty but unlabeled graphs, with plots missing error bar, with pie charts and various forms of "chartjunk". It's hard to make a good dashboard, because to do that you need to figure out what questions will the user want to answer with it.