2008 Excel Dashboard Competition
Maidenhead, Friday, May 29, 2009 - We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 Excel Dashboard competition.
Update 05/29/2009: 2009 Excel Dashboard Competition launched !
Thanks to everyone who entered, and congratulations to our winners, below. Please click on the respective link for more detail on each of the winners:
1. Wade Stokes – International Bank Dashboard
Displaying many disparate Banking Key Performance Indicators, and designed as the basis for the Management review of business performance, it truly achieves More Information per Pixel.
2. Jim Uden – Outpatient Surgery Center Dashboard
Developed for Meridian Surgical Partners, as a one page snapshot for the review and presentation of partnership level business operations and trends. Jim also includes probably the best associated description of dashboard content and the thought processes involved which we’ve seen.
3. Hitesh Patel – Pharmaceutical Sales Dashboard
Developed by Hitesh Patel and Mike Askew of Data Intelligence, for Bristol Myers Squibb. A key report for the Regional Sales Managers, containing the information required to run the business in terms of cash, growth, share, and competitive performance.
We will be examining the three winning entries in more technical depth over the next three weeks in our blog at: blog.xlcubed.com. This will include commentary, analysis on the techniques used, and additional business background.
** Note that all data has been obfuscated, and none of the screenshots contain actual data.
The Competition
The competition is for real world solutions, we are not providing a sample data
set, and we’re looking forward to seeing some great examples of reports,
charts and dashboards.
The dashboards will be judged on the clarity and effectiveness with which they
convey their information. As you no doubt know, we are not of the whistles, bells
and gauges school of visualization, we’re looking for business rather than car
dashboards here.
There will be prizes for the top 3 entries, with the winner having first choice of prize from:
| 1st Prize Apple iPhone, more information per pixel
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2nd Prize A data visualization workshop in your geography hosted by Stephen Few |
3rd Prize Stephen Few's Book “Information Dashboard Design” |
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The Rules
We’ve kept the rules simple:
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The solution must be in Excel 2000 or more recent, and not require additional software other than Excel and MicroCharts 3.
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Entries can use any combination of tables, Excel charts, bullet graphs and MicroCharts (sparklines). Each have their strengths and role to play in an effective dashboard
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We will publish the top 3 dashboards on our website (using the upcoming MicroCharts WebEdition), so please ensure this is not problematic for any of your submissions.
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Please change names and data as appropriate in the dashboards to protect the innocent.
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If you are not an existing MicroCharts user, you can download your 30 day trial version of MicroCharts at http://www.bonavistasystems.com/DownloadMicroCharts.html
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Final Entries by
Friday 30 MaySunday 15 June 2008, Judges decision final!
Have a look on our website for some examples of
what we consider good visualization, and keep an eye out in June for the winning
entries.
Please send your entries to
MicroChartsDashCompetition@XLCubed.com