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Comparison Dashboard

Dashboards can be broken down due to their role and taking into consideration whether they are analytical, operational, informational or strategic. The last-mentioned dashboards support managers within an organization, providing both quick and clear overview that they have to start monitoring both health and opportunities for their business. Dashboards of this type are known to be focusing on the high-level measures of performance.

Dashboards that are used for analytical purposes may include more context, history and comparisons than the strategic ones. Analytical dashboards usually support different interactions with the data. Dashboards that are used for monitoring different operations are often designed differently from those that support strategic decision making or data analysis. They also often require monitoring of different activities as well as the events that can be constantly changing, requiring more attention and response.

Any Comparison Dashboard is the one that integrates one screen to view the Comparison Charts as well as different Indicators in a way of the Column Charts, Horizontal Bar Charts, Line Charts, Columns Indicators, Dot Plots, Two Bubbles Indicators, Left and Right Arrows Indicators, Up and Down Arrows Indicators, Two Up Arrows Indicator, Scales Indicators, etc.

All the mentioned tools are available to be used from the Comparison Dashboard solution while working in the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and drawing software, including the pre-made examples of the dashboards, such as an “example 1: Comparison Dashboard — Support Calls by Products” and “Support calls by Products” one.

This particular sample was created by using the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM application and it demonstrates the Comparison Dashboard solution's capabilities well. All the charts can change their data automatically when its source changes. The mentioned dashboard contains four horizontal bar charts that illustrate the comparison of both closed and open support calls for five product models daily and weekly.

As a general rule, the Comparison Dashboard solution is used by such specialists as project managers, scientists, teachers, technicians and many other managers who care for their reputation as well as for a result of their work.


Examples

The samples you see on this page were obtained by connecting a sample data source to templates from the Comparison Dashboard solution, to demonstrate some of the solution's capabilities and the results you can achieve.

These documents are vector graphic documents, created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using ConceptDraw Live Objects technology. They are available for modifying, reviewing and/or converting to many different formats, such as MS PowerPoint, PDF file, MS Visio, and many other graphic ones from the ConceptDraw Solution Park or ConceptDraw STORE. The Comparison Dashboard solution is available to all ConceptDraw DIAGRAM users to get installed and used while working in the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and drawing software.

You can download sample data sources for all dashboards to see how changes made to data effect dashboard appearance.

Example 1: Comparison Dashboard — Support Calls by Products

This sample was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the Comparison Dashboard solution, and demonstrates the solution's capabilities and the results you can achieve using this solution. All the charts on this page change automatically when the data source changes.

This support performance dashboard contains four horizontal bar charts. The bar charts show the comparison of open and closed support calls for five product models daily and weekly.

Comparison Dashboard — Support Calls by Products

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Meet ConceptDraw Visual Dashboards

What I need to get started

Both ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and drawing software and the Comparison Dashboard solution can help creating the visual dashboard you need. The Comparison Dashboard solution can be found in the Dashboards area of ConceptDraw STORE application that can be downloaded from this site. Make sure that both ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and ConceptDraw STORE applications are installed on your computer before you get started.

How to install

After ConceptDraw STORE and ConceptDraw DIAGRAM are downloaded and installed, you can install the Comparison Dashboard solution from the ConceptDraw STORE.

Comparison Dashboard solution - Install

Start using

To make sure that you are doing it all right, use the pre-designed symbols from the stencil libraries from the solution to make your drawings look smart and professional. Also, the pre-made examples from this solution can be used as drafts so your own drawings can be based on them. Using the samples, you can always change their structures, colors and data.

Comparison Dashboard solution -Start Using


What is Comparison Dashboard?

Comparison Dashboard integrates a single screen view of the Comparison Charts and Indicators as
  • Horizontal Bar Charts
  • Column Charts
  • Line Charts
  • Dot Plot
  • Two Columns Indicator
  • Two Bubbles Indicator
  • Scales Indicator
  • Left and Right Arrows Indicator
  • Up and Down Arrows Indicator
  • Two Up Arrows Indicator

The libraries of Comparison Charts and Comparison Indicators consist of Live Objects, the special shapes that can change their appearance depending on external data.

Why use it?

Each Comparison Chart or Indicator displays your source data, to visually communicate Item Comparison.You can include Composition Charts and Indicators into your business or technical dashboards to show the ranking of your items.

Item Comparison

«In an item comparison, we want to compare how things rank: are they about the same, or is one more or less than the others? ...Words indicating larger than, smaller than, or equal are clues to an item comparison. Communication.»

Gene Zelazny
Say It With Charts: The Executive's Guide to Visual Communication
4th Edition
McGraw-Hill | 2001. P. 22.
Item Comparison shows you an item’s ranking. To visualize Item Comparison you can use
  • Bar Charts
  • Column Charts
  • Line Charts
  • Scatter Charts
  • Double Bar and Column Indicators
  • Double Bubble Indicators
  • Scales Indicators
  • Double Arrow Indicators.

What chart or indicator should you use?

Use Horizontal Bar Charts. Also, you can use Column Chart for a few data points. Avoid using the vertical category labels in Column Charts, use Horizontal Bar Charts with horizontal labels instead. Use Comparison Indicators for pairwise comparison.