Monthly Archives: May 2008

Dashboard Eye Candy

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Dashboard Spy

Yes, I know that good information visualization practice and dashboard design calls for effective use of screen real estate with clear and simple devices such as sparklines and bullet graphs. Easy to read and interpret, these charts, combined with a … Continue reading →

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So Where are the Excel 2007 Dashboards?

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Dashboard Spy

Are less dashboards being built using Excel 2007 than I thought? The recent post about customizing the Ribbon navigation panel elements for Excel 2007 dashboards brought out a couple of comments from Dashboard Spy readers that basically said that Office … Continue reading →

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Customizing Ribbon Buttons for Excel 2007 Dashboards

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Dashboard Spy

Building a dashboard with Excel 2007? Don’t forget to make use of the Excel 2007 ribbon. You can add your own custom tabs and buttons to the Excel ribbon using XML or RibbonX code. Thanks to Mike Alexander, author of … Continue reading →

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First Spreadsheet Dashboard

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Dashboard Spy

In the past, we’ve noted that the first computer-based business dashboard was generated by a computer named LEO. It printed out a dashboard report showing payroll statistics for the Lyons Tea Shops in the 1940s. The computer was room-sized and … Continue reading →

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Dashboard or Scorecard

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Dashboard Spy

A couple of Dashboard Spy readers and I were going back and forth about some of the various terms used to describe these dashboardy things that we do. There are plenty of terms used interchangeably: Dashboard Reports, Executive Dashboards, Scorecards, … Continue reading →

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