A business intelligence dashboard design approach to improve data analytics and decision making

Abstract

This paper considers a problem of dashboard design, since usage of inappropriate visuals may mislead users and shift their focus to wrong things. Bar charts, line charts, and pie charts are considered as the most common visualization graphs. Proposed approach includes dataset preparation and analysis phases. While dataset preparation phase is mostly focused on star schema transformation into flat structures, dataset analysis phase proposes recommendations on which visualizations may be placed on a designed dashboard.