As we approach the January championship games for American college and professional football, I am pondering how this sport is similar to the way a CIOΓÇÖs IT department works with managers and employees who must improve an organizationΓÇÖs performance using analytics, big data and integrated corporate performance management methods.

Data Visualization is everywhere. You may not have noticed that itΓÇÖs made its way out of the offices and into the streets, your homes, and onto your TV screens and computer games; but this has happened.

You can follow all the dashboard design best practices in the world but if you don't understand what it is that your target dashboard audience needs to see you're setting yourself up for a for a BI disappointment.

Everyone tends to know what a pie chart is but the problem is that most people are not using the pie chart correctly.

A high level overview on dashboards for those new to business intelligence, data visualization, and dashboards.