Eighteen dashboards
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Eighteen dashboards. The register, and the column it is built around.
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LensLens is the register of every published dashboard at Acme Home Appliances, a demo company: who it is built for, who owns it, and how many people actually open it.
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EighteenEighteen dashboards are published, and five are pinned by their owners.
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ViewersThe column the page is built around is readership: distinct people in the last thirty days. A dashboard with six readers is a maintenance cost somebody is still paying.
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The most readBusiness pulse is the most read, with 47 people in thirty days, most of the leadership team among them.
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Nobody openedOne dashboard has not been opened by anybody in thirty days.
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ThinFour more have fewer than ten readers.
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Broken feedsAnd eight are fed by at least one table the catalog does not stand behind.
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Built forBuilt for names the audience, and Owner names the person who answers for the dashboard.
The tail nobody reads
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The tail nobody reads. Where a reporting estate quietly grows.
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UnreadThe water heater rollup was built for a business that was sold in March. Nobody has opened it in four months, and its seven tiles still refresh.
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Marked, not fadedIt is marked rather than faded. Everywhere else a faded row means settled; here, an unread dashboard is the thing to act on.
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Six readersChannel mix has six readers. Worth asking whether it earns its keep, or whether its four tiles belong on a dashboard people already open.
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Eight readersWarranty claims has eight, and it is fed by a table with a failing check.
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Sorted by readersSorted by readership, fewest first, the tail is five dashboards with thirty-two readers between them.
Fed by a broken table
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Fed by a broken table. A confident chart on a dead pipeline.
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FeedsFeeds names the governed tables behind each dashboard, and only shows a warning when one of them is failing checks or more than a week old.
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Two unhealthyBusiness pulse reads two unhealthy tables: channel stock, nine days old, and customer feedback, failing three checks.
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Channel stockThe Channel stock dashboard reads two tables, and both have stopped arriving.
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Worst feeds firstSorted by feeds, the dashboards with the most unhealthy tables come first.
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By audienceSearch reads names, descriptions, audiences and owners. Five dashboards are built for leadership, and two of them read an unhealthy table.
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Another audienceThe service head has three, from daily operations to warranty claims.
Opening one
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Opening one. A dashboard marks its own doubtful tiles.
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Every tile flaggedThe Channel stock dashboard says, above its tiles, that all six are not showing current data.
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Still shownThe numbers are still shown, because hiding them would be worse. Each tile names its table and when it last refreshed.
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Every dashboard, one click awayThe dashboards panel opens any other dashboard without going back to the register, with its tile count and readers.
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CleanReceivables and credit reads a healthy table, so nothing is flagged. Overdue beyond sixty days is ₹17.5 crore, and the West holds ₹9.8 crore of it.
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A target lineCollection on time is drawn against a 90% target. The West is at 71%.
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MixedFestive season readiness mixes both: the build figures from the plants are current, and the channel stock figures are not.
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CurrentThe festive build is 69% done, with nineteen working days left. That tile is trustworthy.
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Not currentDays of cover by category is flagged, so nobody plans the build from nine-day-old stock without knowing.
The chart reference
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The chart reference. Every form the product draws, and when it is wrong.
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Chart referenceThe chart reference lists every form the product can draw: twenty-seven of them, plus the stat tile, sparkline and meter.
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Is it a chartIt starts with the most common mistake: a single number drawn as a chart. One number is a stat tile.
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Not whenEvery form carries a line saying when it is the wrong answer. A bullet without a target is a bar chart wearing extra ink.
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Use sparinglyPie, radar and dual axis are drawn, and flagged. A pie is wrong when two slices are close, because angle is the channel people read worst.
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Used onEach entry links to the dashboards that use it, derived from the dashboards themselves, so the list cannot drift.
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Use lastDual axis comes with the strongest warning. Where the two axes line up is a choice nobody can see, so it can show a correlation the data does not have.
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FlowAnd at the end, flow: a funnel says how many were lost, a Sankey says which route they took.
Repair, and recount
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Repair, and recount. Fix a feed in Data, and the register changes.
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In Antvia DataThe channel stock feed is repaired where connectors live, in Antvia Data.
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RecountedBack in Lens, six dashboards are fed by a broken table, not eight. Festive readiness and Channel stock are clean.
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One leftBusiness pulse now reads one unhealthy table, the customer feedback that is still failing.
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CurrentAnd the Channel stock dashboard has no warnings at all.