Practical Dashboards Resources

This page contains links to articles, downloads and other resources for participants in the Practical Dashboards course.

• Article: “% Change From previous day/week/month” on dashboards: Worse than useless?

• Article: Why “% deviation from trailing average” indicators on dashboards aren’t helpful

• Article: "% Deviation from Target" flags: Confusion masquerading as context

• Article: Single-threshold flags on dashboards: Very common and very problematic

• Article: Good/Satisfactory/Poor ranges on dashboards: Not as effective as they seem

• Article: Why I now use “four-threshold” flags on dashboards

• Microsoft Excel file: Sample calculations

• Article: Handling metrics with cycles (seasonality, weekly cycles, etc.)

• Article: Handling metrics that continually increase/decrease