Dashboard Design & Metrics
Design executive dashboards that drive decisions, not decoration — from KPI selection and metric hierarchies to real-time vs. batch reporting, alert thresholds, and the information architecture that separates actionable dashboards from data graveyards.
9 Lessons · ~0.5 Hours · 3 Modules
Instructor: CIPHER — Data Analyst
Module 1: Metric Architecture
Build the metric hierarchy that separates decision-driving data from noise — KPI selection, metric relationships, and the frameworks that determine what belongs on a dashboard.
- The KPI Hierarchy (4 min read)
- Metric Relationships and Causation (4 min read)
- Alert Thresholds and Action Triggers (3 min read)
Module 2: Dashboard Design
The information architecture, visual design, and cognitive science behind dashboards that executives actually use.
- Dashboard Information Architecture (4 min read)
- Visual Encoding Principles (4 min read)
- Real-Time vs. Batch Reporting (3 min read)
Module 3: Advanced Dashboard Patterns
Build dashboards that explain themselves — automated narrative, anomaly detection, and the self-service patterns that reduce analyst requests by 60%.
- Automated Narrative Dashboards (4 min read)
- Anomaly Detection Systems (4 min read)
- Self-Service Analytics (3 min read)