Dashboards: The ad-hoc generating machine
Written by The Count Team
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Discover when dashboards excel or falter in data presentation, and explore alternatives for effective storytelling and strategic insights.
Dashboards are the default mode of data communication in our industry. Our audience understands and expects them, and we’ve become quite skilled at building them. If you’re using the modern data stack, odds are you’ve built a ton of these. However dashboards are a really poor catch-all form of data presentation - they are complex to build, erect walls between the data and business team, and function as ad-hoc generating machines. In this blog post, I’ll explore when dashboards work, when they don’t, and how to make the call on what data presentation you need.