Best practices for dashboards

- [Narrator] Though building dashboards…takes a bit of creativity,…there is as much a science to it as an art.…There are some key best practices for designing…and building Tableau dashboards.…So really our five key design principles,…you need relevant metrics,…we want to make it visual,…we want to make it interactive,…we want to make it easy to use…and we always want to focus on improving it.…So the first one, you need to pick relevant metrics.…At the heart of the dashboards are a visual tool…to help people view and interpret data,…but we also want to make sure that our metrics matter.…

This really fits in with our design process,…but it's important to get stakeholders involved…so that we can identify the metrics…to be included in our dashboard…so we want to get our stakeholders involved early…even before maybe we even start analyzing the data…and we want to remember if it doesn't get measured,…it doesn't get improved…so we only want to focus on the metrics that we're interested…in improving or taking action on.…