Nah, I'm going to take down that page. Gauge type charts are really
inefficient at showing data, even though they look pretty. They take up a
lot of space for the small amount of information they contain.
Dashboarding means putting useful graphical displays together on a single
screen to enhance analysis and decision making.
I have links to some books that will help with dashboarding. The two books
by Stephen Few** at the bottom of this page describe useful dashboarding and
graphical display from a consideration of human perception and cognition,
and the e-book by Charley Kyd** in the middle of the page shows examples of
putting Few's lessons into practice in Excel:
Excel books:
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/xlbooks.html
General Charting and Graphics (Few** and Tufte):
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/xlbooks.html#GenlCharts
Excel and Office Documents and Reporting (Kyd** and Krieger):
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/xlbooks.html#ExcelReporting
- Jon
