Data VisualizationA comprehensive guide for creating consistent and effective data visualizations.
Overview
In today's data-driven business world, dashboards are essential for making quick, informed decisions by simplifying complex data. At BUMA, effective dashboards support profitable production processes through the right data visualization choices. This guide provides best practices for creating clear, insightful dashboards to improve data understanding and communication.
What is Data Visualization?
Data visualization presents data through graphics such as charts and heat maps, simplifying complex information to reveal patterns, trends, and issues that enable informed decisions and support business goals.
Why is Data Visualization Important?
Data visualization is all about transforming complex data into a visual format that is easy to understand, so that insights can be found quickly and decisions can be made accordingly. It also improves communication, reveals data patterns and anomalies, supports performance monitoring, and drives data-driven decision making and continuous improvement.
The Benefit
#1Simplifying Data Complexity
Transform complex data into understandable data through visual representations. #2Uncover Patterns and Trends
Shows important trends, data patterns, and relationships between data so that it becomes easy to see errors or anomalies in each data. #3Fast and Precise Decision Making
When data is well-visualized, it can make it easier to make the right decisions. #4Turning Data into Stories
Data visualization provides the art of presenting data by building an interesting narrative that makes effective communication. #5Increasing Interest in Data
Visualized data is proven to be more engaging and memorable when compared to data with lots of tables of numbers and text. 
Tiering
Hierarchical approach to dashboard design, organizing data from general overviews to more specific details
Pattern
Principles for using visual patterns effectively presenting data relationships and trends across all dashboards.
Chart and Graph
Guideline for selecting and designing charts and graphs to support better insight delivery and decision-making.
Typography
Typography is fundamental in presenting the hierarchy, information, and context of a page.