Monthly Archives: March 2012

Using Excel to Create Slick Infographics

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A Dashboard Spy reader recently pinged me to ask for that cricket infographic done entirely in Excel. I featured it a while back. It comes from our friend and long time Dashboard Spy supporter, Chandoo.

Here’s what it looks like:

Want to download the excel worksheet and play around with the file? Maybe you can leverage it to create your own infographic. Chandoo has very nicely provided it here:

Cricket Infographic in Excel (zip file)

View Chandoo’s comments on this excel worksheet here:

http://chandoo.org/wp/2010/02/26/sachin-tendulkar-odi-poster

Be sure to send me your infographic. Whatever you come up with, I’d be happy to take a look and feature it on this blog.

Warmly,

Hubert Lee
The Dashboard Spy

Salesforce.com Mobile Dashboards for the iPad

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Mobile dashboards for the iPad have steadily grown in popularity. Here’s a quick look at Salesforce.com’s mobile dashboards. The sales force, of course, is constantly on the run and, subsequently, being able to pull up relevant dashboards quickly on mobile devices is a big need. The salesforce.com app saves time by using “recent” and “followed” dashboard views as a key navigation style.

Take a look at this screenshot from an iPad. It shows recently viewed dashboards.

When you click on one, it comes up like this Sales Activity dashboard:

And this screenshot shows the dashboard being configured. Note the styling details.

Here is a video explaining these dashboards in more detail.

GOP Primary Dashboards

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Metrics dashboards are playing a role in keeping the public informed about the progress of the various Republican candidates during the 2012 GOP primary elections. Socialmatica has released data dashboards powered by their social media metrics collection technology.

Here’s  a look at the Rick Santorum Dashboard (view the live dashboard here):

The data is gathered as follows:

SocialMatica’s analysis and rankings of the GOP candidates is gathered from vast amounts of available online data, including LinkedIn, online news sites, discussion groups, Facebook, blogs, twitter feeds, forums, and web traffic data from a variety of sources.

The company talks about their dashboards here:

They explain their data analysis dashboards and real time measurements for digital trends. The GOP dashboards are explained in depth.

NCAA Basketball Dashboard

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Update: Here is the iDashboards NCAA dashboard updated with the final four:

Fans of both business intelligence dashboards and March Madness basketball are thrilled that for the third consecutive year iDashboards is offering a free dashboard for tracking the 2012 NCAA Basketball Tournament. Basketball enthusiasts have been be able to follow their team’s journey through the tournament, gaining in-depth insight into player and statistics through the use of interactive intelligence and drilldown capabilities. The tournament dashboard can be found at http://live.idashboards.com/basketball/?guestuser=hoopsfan

Take a look at this snapshot and be sure to visit the actual dashboard to drill down on the data.

This is the mens tournament (click to enlarge or visit the actual dashboard at http://live.idashboards.com/basketball/?guestuser=hoopsfan):

And here is the women’s tornament:

Here was the press release from iDashboards:

iDashboards Tracks the 2012 NCAA Basketball Tournament

 

Troy, MI – March 15, 2012 – iDashboards, the leader in Business Intelligence (BI) dashboard software, has once again redefined the dashboard experience, taking BI beyond the office and to the masses.   For the third consecutive year, iDashboards has released an interactive dashboard designed to provide fans with the latest player and team statistics throughout the 2012 tournament.

 

Leveraging iDashboards’ patented interactive intelligence, basketball fans are able to follow each team’s journey through the tournament using a dynamic sports bracket.  iDashboards’ user-friendly interface and drilldown capability provides enthusiasts with in-depth insight into regional, team and player statistics.

 

“By continuing development on our series of sports-themed dashboards we continually push the boundaries of traditional business intelligence while showcasing the benefits of data visualization in a meaningful way,” said Shadan Malik, CEO, iDashboards. “We encourage fans of all ages to view and interact with the dashboard while tracking the progress and game statistics of their favorite teams.”

iDashboards welcomes everyone to view the dashboard at http://live.idashboards.com/basketball/?guestuser=hoopsfan. Sports enthusiasts are invited to share or host a link to the tournament dashboard on their website, blog and social media profiles.