Business dashboards are like automobile dashboards — they give you the information you need to make decisions. Of course, data dashboards are more complex. They track key data points, and trends, as well as metrics related to your business process and systems. Business dashboards use data visualization techniques to help managers track key performance metrics, understand current trends, and empower decision-makers to plan future strategies.
When it comes to data visualization and beautiful dashboards, there is a charting and graphing library that stands out in terms of ease of use, efficiency, and beautiful presentations. That library is FusionCharts. You can build beautiful, interactive, and real-time data dashboard in minutes using the FusionCharts library.
We have put together an introductory guide to dashboards that will help you decide which FusionCharts dashboard is best for your business and how to make the most out of your data.
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A business dashboard is a visual and meaningful presentation of data. Data is presented via charts, graphs, gauges, or maps to help users make sense out of numbers. A dashboard usually consists of more than one mode of presentation. For example, you can use a bar chart may be used to show sales in different cities. You can supplement that with a line graph showing how sales fluctuate on a weekly basis. These graphs can also be augmented by adding a map of locations and their corresponding sales revenues.
There are different types of dashboards for data analysis, presentation, and visualization. Read on to find out about different types of dashboards. The list is not exhaustive. You can also check out a more complete list of beautiful dashboards built using FusionCharts for web and mobile.
Analytics dashboards extract key information from large volumes of data. They present summaries of data to help you study long-term and past and present trends. For instance, This dashboard tracks important performance-related website statistics:
Real-time monitoring dashboards allow executives and managers to track key performance indicators in real-time for day-to-day business and operations. These dashboards normally update very frequently and allow users to analyze fluctuations on the fly. Here are a few real-time monitoring dashboards:
A wealth management dashboard helps you track your financial assets as well as other metrics like sales, revenue, new net money, and more.
Social media dashboards collect data from social media platforms and present it in a useful and meaningful format. Take a look at this FusionCharts real-time twitter hashtag tracker.
This dashboard lets you see tweets, retweets, active hours, and active regions. The dashboard illustrates trends and posts as well as shows you what news is going viral and which of your posts could use a boost.
A dashboard tailored for mobile phones allows users to look at summaries showcasing best selling products, best performing cities, and countries along with executives with maximum performance.
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