Business Intelligence Dashboards are often lavishly illustrated with bar graphs, pie charts and other graphics of metrics and KPIs. However, as you know, the plain old data table often makes an appearance on our dashboard interfaces.

How do we make these data tables intuitive to read?

Take a look at our post on the main Dashboard Spy site titled Intuitive Dashboard Design and see an example of how to optimize data tables for maximum understanding. It’s a great read.

Here’s a sample from the post:

Click on this post to find out how to optimize a data table like that one to make it intuitive for your dashboard users to understand the significance of the data: Intuitive Dashboard Design Using Preattentive Variables.

Here is a hint. It has to do with this graphic:

Tags: Optimizing Table Design in Business Intelligence Dashboards, BI Dashboard Data Tables