Hi Eddie, I still think Dashboards have a place, just like I still think McDonalds is great :) and there are perfectly legitimate times for dashboards to exist to serve high level data needs, like a New Relic dashboard.
In terms of executive dashboards specifically, it would differ everytime, and the question is not "should blah person have dashboards" but more... how tricky is this data, how data literate is my audience, do they have the tools to then self serve some questions. And that last point is the kicker, if the exec doesn't have the tools to dive under the dashboard then they will take the dashboard at face value, regardless of type 1 / type 2 / sampling errors / data quality levels.
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Great article. What's your perspective on the concept of the Executive Dashboard? The premise being that execs just want the summary?
Hi Eddie, I still think Dashboards have a place, just like I still think McDonalds is great :) and there are perfectly legitimate times for dashboards to exist to serve high level data needs, like a New Relic dashboard.
In terms of executive dashboards specifically, it would differ everytime, and the question is not "should blah person have dashboards" but more... how tricky is this data, how data literate is my audience, do they have the tools to then self serve some questions. And that last point is the kicker, if the exec doesn't have the tools to dive under the dashboard then they will take the dashboard at face value, regardless of type 1 / type 2 / sampling errors / data quality levels.