During widget creation, and dashboard development, we have all came across multiple dilemmas and questions like:
- Does this widget look good?
- Does this look good as part of the whole dashboard?
- Is the dashboard too crowded? Is the widget too crowded?
- Shall I add/remove something?
A frequently used widget in most of our dashboards are line charts, bar charts & probably a combo of both on the same widget!
Their power on showing trend and correlation with another metric/value, is often a key-part to detect an insight/outlier by applying some business perspective on those data, as well 😉
One of the challenges is, when you try to plot multiple points(eg. over 20) on a Line Chart, it can be by itself crowded (refer to example1.png attached). You would agree that some numbers are hard to read, right?
Imagine, having a beautifully structured schema, where this beautiful trend can be broken down to another dimension (refer to example2.png attached). Yes, I know....
This is how easy a beautiful chart can get ugly in 2-secs..
There used to be a functionality in Windows (probably a custom plugin) that gave the dashboard developer/designer the opportunity to select which Values to show, eg. First, Last, Min, Max)
In Linux, unfortunately this plugin is not compatible, therefore I am reaching out to you Sisenser's, if you are facing similar issue, if you have tackled it, and if there is any plan to add this Sisense's roadmap for development in future versions as part of Product Feedback.
I have also included the dashboard.png as part of the "Does this look good as part of the whole dashboard?"! 🙂
