Mapping tools, enterprise GIS and executive dashboard technologies and practices are combining in an exciting way to create feature-rich, yet intuitive interfaces for the presentation of business intelligence. Here is a really good article on one company’s (Thetus Corporation) approach: Geospatial Knowledge Modeling – Connecting Discoveries, Locations and Predictive Models.
The real value of the article is the presentation of a solid knowledge discovery, abstraction and presentation framework. Here are images of various models that I grabbed from their site:
The Knowlege Abstraction Model
The Semantic Knowledge Models
The Knowledge Modeling Process:
And their Knowledge Portal:
To give you a flavor of the article, here are the elements/steps presented in the construction of the Thetus geospatial-enabled executive dashboard:
- Elements of Knowledge Modeling
- Finding Key Relationships
- Collection
- Assembly
- Delivery
- Fusion
- Discovery
- Annotation
- Enhancement
- Modeling
- Hypothesizing
- Publishing
And now, finally, here is a look at their example executive dashboard. It is a GIS Dashboard for an operations monitoring center. This particular example is for use by an oil drilling company. It combines mapping technology and enterprise dashboard best practices to provide a slick dashboard example well worth studying. Note the “newer” bells and whistles such as the corresponding pictures available for each asset being monitored.
Tags: GIS dashboard, Executive Dashboard Design, Geospatial dashboards, mapping dashboards