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.

Who would have thought that a graphic form that a decade ago was rarely seen outside of academic publications could become so popular?

What does SimCity, Civilization, Street Fighter, Twisted Metal, Wii Sports, and Rollercoaster Tycoon all have in common? Well besides being video games, they all feature some form of data visualization.

Discover why sparklines, bullet graphs, and state indicators are the ΓÇ£darlings of dashboardsΓÇ¥.

50 Shades of Grey? The book? Not quite ΓÇô weΓÇÖre talking about the use of shades in dashboards. YouΓÇÖve connected to your data, defined the key performance indicators you want to display, you may have even decided what visuals you want to use to display your data; now itΓÇÖs time to start designing your dashboard.