Comments on: Does the Federal IT Dashboard Come With a Decoder Ring? http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/metrics-and-measurement/federal-it-dashboard-decoder-ring Just another WordPress site Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: The CIO Guide to Dashboards — CIO Dashboard http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/metrics-and-measurement/federal-it-dashboard-decoder-ring#comment-279 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:25:55 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=837#comment-279 […] Does the Federal IT Dashboard Come With a Decoder Ring? […]

]]> By: Chris Curran http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/metrics-and-measurement/federal-it-dashboard-decoder-ring#comment-277 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:56:41 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=837#comment-277 Thanks for your comments Zach – as you know, I’m a big fan of JuiceAnalytics.

I agree that the treemap is effective in showing relative bucket size. Putting my “US Citizen” hat on though, I think it’s pretty daunting. As a CIO advisor who’s interested in the budget data, percentages alone aren’t enough – I’d like to see the dollars too. That may be user error on my part, though. -Chris

]]> By: Zach Gemignani http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/metrics-and-measurement/federal-it-dashboard-decoder-ring#comment-276 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:09:04 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=837#comment-276 As the people who created the treemap visualization for the IT dashboard, I have to defend its usefulness. I’ve found treemaps to be uniquely qualified to show this kind of hierarchical data. It is easy for a user to answer the two most common questions of a portfolio of investments: a) what are the big spending buckets? b) where are the changes in spending? In fact, the combination of those questions is what people most want to know. The added bonus of a treemap is that it lets you drill down and navigate to areas of interest and continue to answer those key questions. All that said, I recognize that treemaps take a little getting used to.

]]> By: Zach Gemignani http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/metrics-and-measurement/federal-it-dashboard-decoder-ring#comment-278 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:09:00 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=837#comment-278 As the people who created the treemap visualization for the IT dashboard, I have to defend its usefulness. I’ve found treemaps to be uniquely qualified to show this kind of hierarchical data. It is easy for a user to answer the two most common questions of a portfolio of investments: a) what are the big spending buckets? b) where are the changes in spending? In fact, the combination of those questions is what people most want to know. The added bonus of a treemap is that it lets you drill down and navigate to areas of interest and continue to answer those key questions. All that said, I recognize that treemaps take a little getting used to.

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