DATA VISUALIZATION (2 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this Course, students will be able to: Explain the basic concepts, the framework and context for understanding the performance dashboards; Analyze performance dashboards in depth and critical success factors of performance dashboards project; Apply process of creating the building blocks of a performance dashboard and putting the dashboard items together; Analyze the key advanced functions of performance dashboard and how use them play with data and image to drive the dashboard relevant to the business user.

Topics:

1. The Landscape for Performance Dashboards (What Are Performance Dashboards? The Context for Performance Dashboards);
2. The Landscape for Performance Dashboards (Assessing Your Organizational Readiness, Assessing Your Technical Readiness, How to Align Business and IT);
3. Performance Dashboard in Action (Operational Dashboards in Action, Tactical Dashboards in Action, Strategic Dashboards in Action);
4. How to Create Effective Performance Metrics;
5. How to Design Effective Dashboard Displays;
6. How to Deploy and Integrate Dashboards;
7. A Short Dash to Dash-boarding;
8. Summarizing Your Data for Dashboards;
9. Interacting with Data for Dashboards;
10. Using Dashboards to Get Results;
11. Making Dashboards Relevant;
12. Visual Best Practices;
13. Dashboard project presentation.