Data Visualization
Deploying Dashboards and Scorecards
This paper defines dashboards and scorecards and describes them in the context of BI and performance management disciplines.
Designing Executive Dashboards
This article will discuss how to create an effective operational dashboard and some of the associated design best practices.
What's Wrong with this Picture?
Video: IBM Takes Clients Shopping to Build a Better Bank
In the video, IBM takes its top banking clients on a shopping tour of the Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace, in Las Vegas, Nevada, to learn from the retail industry about how to create a unique customer experience.
Common Pitfalls in Dashboard Design
This white paper presents 13 of the most common pitfalls in the visual design of dashboards. Knowing what doesn't work will help you avoid the problems that resign most dashboards to the trash heap.
Deploying Dashboards and Scorecards
Dashboards and scorecards represent next-generation business intelligence because they are easy for a majority of business users who find traditional reporting and analysis tools too complex.
Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis
This paper describes Show Me, an integrated set of user interface commands and defaults that incorporate automatic presentation into a commercial visual analysis system called Tableau.
Visual Analysis for Everyone
This whitepaper describes how Tableau Software solves problems with a declarative visual query language (VizQL), describes how to query data and how to present it visually.



