I think I’ve invented a new game for you and your enterprise dashboard team. I call it Six Degrees of Dashboarding. The objective is to find connections between dashboards. Of course, finding connections between data elements is what dashboarding is all about. You call it business intelligence. So you should be good at this game, no?
I’ll go first. What does the highway traffic dashboard from the Virginia Department of Transportation have to do with the famous virtual dashboard from the Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report?
Take a look at the VDOT Dashboard:
(Also, see the original Dashboard Spy post on this traffic dashboard from the VDOT)
now take a look at the Minority Report Dashboard:
(See this post on the Criminal Tracking Dashboard and this post on the Dashboards of the Future)
For the answer to this game, see the post, Tom Cruise is a Dashboard Spy, over at The Dashboard Spy. Enjoy!
Tag: Minority Report Dashboard, VDOT Dashboard, Virginia Department of Transportation, Dashboard of the Future, Digital Dashboards, Six Degrees of Dashboarding, 6 Degrees of Dashboarding
As one of the pioneers in dashboard technology, Indigetech helped develop the VDOT dashboard which began in April 2002. It’s another example of the state agency’s determination to provide impeccable customer service to its citizens. We are really grateful for the opportunity to be part of it.
What’s up with those traffic lights in the VDOT dashboard? They are pure decoration, and give no meaning at all.
It would be different if you colored the corresponding numbers red, yellow, and green. Or even – gasp! – made a pie chart showing the relative numbers falling within each category.
The dashboard as shown has 10 pieces of information, several pulldowns and buttons, and tons of wasted space.