Dashboard Competition
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2009.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
BonaVista Systems, the maker of MicroCharts 3 sparkline* software for Microsoft Excel and for Microsoft Analysis Services, has announced an Excel Dashboard Competition. The competition is for the best real-world Excel dashboard: supply your own data (suitably obfuscated, of course) and generate a dashboard using only Excel and MicroCharts 3.
*Sparklines are small (word-sized) but information-dense graphical elements, uniquely suited for dashboard information displays. Sparklines were invented by information visualization expert Edward Tufte.
MicroCharts is a third-party utility that enables users to add sparklines to Excel worksheets.
There will be three winners announced. First prize will be an Apple iPhone, second prize a data visualization workshop hosted by Stephen Few, and third prize a copy of Stephen Few’s book, Information Dashboard Design.
Good luck to all who enter.
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- The Whatever Files, 15 May 2009
- Links and Updates 2008-August-29
- Waterfall Utility Update
- Upcoming Appearances
- Second Excel Dashboard Boot Camp – May 2009
- Excel Dashboard and Visualization Boot Camp
Posted: Friday, April 11th, 2008 under Dashboards.
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