A Political Campaign Tracking Dashboard - Measuring the mud slinging with the Mud Meter
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Update: Track the 2008 Presidential election results with this map from Google:
Enterprise Dashboards playing a role in political campaigns and elections? Maybe so. Here is a look at how dashboards can track data for a campaign.
The 2004 presidential campaign was remembered for its mudslinging. The smart folks at Arizona State University tracked the nastiness with its Campaign Tracking Dashboard. Here is a screenshot of this neat performance scorecard.
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Homework: What do you think about categorizing dashboards into the following types (defined by Malik):
Considering the myriad applications of dashboards within organizations, dashboards may be grouped into the following major categories:
• Enterprise performance dashboards
• Divisional dashboards
• Process/activity monitoring dashboards
• Application dashboards
• Customer dashboards
• Vendor dashboards
So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.

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