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Dashboard Design Worksheet

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Want to try designing your own dashboard? Try using this worksheet to guide yourself through the process of identifying your audience, choosing your essential data, and experimenting with visualizations and layout.

TABLEAU

Resources about Tableau, by Tableau:

DATA VIZ IN MUSEUMS

Other examples of how dashboards and data viz are being developed and used in museums around the world:

IN COLLECTIONS

Casino, A., Raes, N., Addink, W., & Woodburn, M. 2019. "Collections digitization and assessment dashboard, a tool for supporting informed decisions." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards.

Deal, L. 2015;2014. "Visualizing digital collections." Technical Services Quarterly 14-34.

Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Downey, L. 2006. "Visual comparison and exploration of natural history collections." Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces - AVI 06.

Kräutli, F. 2016. "Visualising cultural data: Exploring digital collections through timeline visualisations." ProQuest Dissertations Publishing 1-341

Shirey, V. 2018. "Visualizing natural history collection data provides insight into collection development and bias." Biodiversity Data Journal 1-8.

Smith, V., Paul, D., Woodburn, M., Grant, S., Singer, R., & Love, K. 2018. "Shining a New Light on the World's Collections." iDigBio. August 14. Accessed September 19, 2019. https://www.idigbio.org/content/shining-new-light-world’s-collections.

Windhager, F., Filipov, V. A., Salisu, S., & Mayr, E. 2018. "Visualizing Uncertainty in Cultural Heritage Collections." Eurographics Digital Library 2311-2330.

IN EXHIBITS

Block, F., Horn, M. S., Phillips, B. C., Diamond, J., Evans, E. M., & Shen, C. 2012. "The DeepTree exhibit: Visualizing the tree of life to facilitate informal learning." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2789-2798.

Liffick, M. 2008. "The IMA Dashboard." MW2008. http://dashabord.imamuseum.org.

Ma, J., Ma, K.-L., & Frazier, J. 2019. "Decoding a Complex Visualization in a Science Museum - An Empirical Study." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 1-1.

Rao, S. 2017. "When big data meets art appreciation." The Boston Globe, April 14. https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2017/04/13/when-big-data-meets-art-appreciation/HqeuVGv9qdm2PGJAeYAuZK/story.html.

OTHER

Hinrichs, U., Schmidt, H., & Carpendale, S. 2008. "EMDialog: Bringing Information Visualization into the Museum." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 1181-1188.

Molineux, A., Zachos, L., Criswell, K. E., & Risen, T. 2012. "GIS, The Key to Collections Management of a Large Research Archive." Colleciton Forum 60-69.

Semal, P., Adam, M., Spiegel, D. V. D., Theeten, F., Engledow, H., Mergen, P., … Rubio, A. 2019. "CETAF Collection Dashboard: Mapping natural history collections diversity." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards.

IMLS OpenRefine Tutorial

OpenRefine can be a great time-saving tool when manipulating large datasets. This module from the Institute of Museum and Library Services specifically covers data cleaning with it.

Tableau's Advice

Tips from Tableau on getting and keeping your data clean.

DATA CURATION

Resources for cleaning and preparing datasets:

History of Data Viz

This Smithsonian article goes into the historic evolution of data viz, if you're curious.

Tableau's Book List

Here is a list of books about data viz that Tableau recommends.

Tableau's Intro to Data Viz

A brief orientation to what data viz actually is and how it's uniquely useful. This also has links to many other resources.

Best Practices Guide

This is a fabulous resource from Knowable Magazine about data viz best practices. It covers tips for choosing chart types and colors, common pitfalls, and why our design choices matter.