Creating a high-information visibility dashboard
In this second example, we’ll create a dashboard intended to provide information at a much higher level of view; that is, a display intended to be scanned rapidly for us to get a big-picture viewpoint. Typically, you’d see this type of dashboard in a kiosk-type context, such as in an operations center or a public informational display.
We’ll be making extensive use of the Stat visualization as opposed to the Time series visualization, as we did previously. The idea we’re trying to convey is that the dashboard will be displayed in a context that makes details hard to read from a distance.
Designing the dashboard
What we want to do is create and arrange a set of panels that will fit on a single page as we may not have the ability to scroll around or even interact with the page (kiosk mode). In keeping with the strategy we described previously, here’s what we have in mind:
- First row:
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