Questions about the Dashboards poster

What’s on the Dashboards poster?

14 entries in 3 groups. Design for a five-second glance. Include: A small number of metrics, with targets, Trend, not just current value, Comp…; Exclude: Every metric you have, Decorative charts, 3-D anything, Pie charts with many…; Design: Most important top-left, Consistent colours for the same meaning, Direction o…. If a number on a dashboard has never caused anyone to do anything, remove it. It is costing attention for nothing.

Who is the Dashboards poster for?

Dashboards belongs to the Business & Management section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning analytics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Dashboards poster?

A dashboard answers 'is anything wrong?' A report answers 'why?'. They are different documents. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Dashboards belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Dashboards?

A/B Testing, Cohort Analysis and Analysis Traps sit alongside Dashboards in the Business & Management section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.A/B TestingCohort AnalysisAnalysis Traps

Is the Dashboards poster free to download and print?

Yes. Dashboards downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Business & Management section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Dashboards poster print at?

Dashboards is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Dashboards loses nothing.Printing guide