Less is a bore …

It’s Friday morning and time again for “The goody I found (TGIF!)”… … this week it’s a Power BI Sales Dashboard on linkedin that caught my eye.
https://lmy.de/jeYxX

As you can see in the screenshot, the image of an SUV dominates the dashboard layout. The arrow icons on the left and right allow the user to scroll through the figures for the different car models.
Very eye-catching – is this perhaps a marketing brochure?

I won’t go into detail about the charts here, but I would argue for the opposite presentation: put the numbers in the foreground and make the car smaller. Nobody benefits from regularly seeing a huge picture of the product they are looking at sales figures for. Not only is it boring (yes, even if it is a car), but it also puts the wrong emphasis on the image.

My suggestion: a presentation that is as DENSE as possible in order to see and compare correlations. 90% of the information on this page can be summarised in a single chart.
Please have a look at my “fake” chart:

Sales as a stacked bar by channel over time, Profit as a pin chart and Discount as a percentage above the chart.
The space now freed up can be used for other visualisations that are interactively linked. Either for all product groups in comparison at a glance or for detailed information in tables.

Yes, this follows the CONDENSE rule of the SUCCESS rules or the International Business Communication Standards. IBCS

Please bear with me, I had no data and the diagram is really not perfect. Don’t ask how I build it … but as the video artist Nam June Paik so beautifully said: „When too perfect, lieber Gott böse!“

With that in mind, have a nice weekend!

Lars

This file is licenced under the Creative Com