decisions, decisions: dashboards and reports coursera weekly challenge 3 answers

Weekly challenge 3

1. There are four key questions business intelligence professionals ask when designing a dashboard. One is, “How many charts are required?” What are the other three? Select all that apply.

  • How can the dashboard be designed in order to include as much fine detail as possible?
  • Which measures and dimensions will be represented in each chart?
  • Which parts of the dataset will make it possible to address the business requirement?
  • Which chart types and forms of encoding will be most effective?

2. What are the risks of including numerous visualizations in a dashboard? Select all that apply.

  • Enable long-term monitoring
  • Empowering users to interpret the data on their own
  • Overwhelming the user
  • Slowing down the dashboard

3. Fill in the blank: When conducting long-term monitoring, larger dashboards will likely require more context in order to make the data _____ for users.

  • accessible
  • dynamic
  • visually pleasing
  • understandable

4. Fill in the blank: It is important to establish _____ for different views in a live-monitoring dashboard in order to give users the ability to drill down to the information that is relevant to them.

  • partitions
  • business rules
  • legends
  • use cases

5. Fill in the blank: In a dashboard, it is helpful to build in _____ that enables users to follow the data’s evolution, rather than isolated snapshots of the latest information.

  • encoding
  • conformity
  • tracking
  • mapping

6. Fill in the blank: When creating a dashboard, implementing _____ is beneficial because it helps users understand why the data in the dashboard is useful.

  • comparisons
  • patterns
  • indexes
  • updates

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7. Fill in the blank: When conducting long-term monitoring, larger dashboards will likely require more _____ in order to make the data understandable for users.

  • context
  • color
  • datasets
  • privacy permissions

8. What are the benefits of implementing comparisons when creating a dashboard? Select all that apply.

  • It helps predict future performance based on a single moment in time
  • It provides insights about an independent datapoint based on one criteria
  • It helps users interpret whether the visualizations indicate good or bad performance
  • It quickly enables users to understand why the data in the dashboard is useful

9. Fill in the blank: Including more visualizations in a dashboard enables more data to be displayed, but this may _____ or slow down the dashboard.

  • change the data over time
  • overwhelm the user
  • speed up the dashboard
  • empower users to interpret the data on their own

10. Fill in the blank: It is important to establish use cases for different _____ in a live-monitoring dashboard in order to give users the ability to drill down to the information that is relevant to them.

  • mockups
  • views
  • hardware
  • aesthetics

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