As someone newish to Analytics and generally fascinated by deep dives into complicated and arcane Coffee topics, I've come to realize I am lacking in phone friendly concision. Just wondering if anyone has examples of Pulse tiles or especially phone-friendly dashboards or insights to share for inspiration and learning? As my org may lean to seat counts over revenue compared to others, my dashboards tend to focus on Sold Counts, Hold type counts, Price type counts, Comp reasons, Available seats, days out comparison, etc. per season, per production and per performance, which tends to Pivots, which aren't Pulse-able. Is there any hope for someone who revels in layers upon layers of complications to find the path to simpler, more concise presentations?
When we first started using analytics we were fortunate to hire some Tessitura consultants to build out some of our dashboards, and I learned a lot from them, including a practice I continue, which is to put the highlevel "phone-friendly" widgets at the top of your dashboard and get more granular as you scroll down. I have not figured out a use case for pulse yet, but the indicator type widgets are very phone friendly. Most of my dashboards start with an indicator of total revenue, total tickets, and a percent to goal using the speedometer style widget. Then I get into year over year line charts and then finally the nitty gritty pivot charts. I'm attaching one of my faves.
SCT23-24PublicTicketSalesReport.dash
There is a mind set to a lot of this.
Most of us in this forum are explorers and adventureers in data and as a consequence have a lot of discovery dashboards. eg: 3 versions of hockey stick line graphs with differing segmentation - barcharts of both Price Type Categories and Price Type Groups ... by performance, zone group, number of days before the last rainfall etc.
What you need in a board meeting or to answer that quick "GotCha" benchmark sales question - and how best to answer it comes with knowing KPIs, audience context, lifetime of data relevance. Some people love #seats per day sold needed to get to target, which can make a good indicator or gauge. I'm less interested because sales curves in season are so dynamic - for me a sales pacing chart is much cleaner and informative.
For more than "How much is sold" indicator consider adding in conditional colour that shows red if below budget by x%. If you really want to get funky try to filter by "relative to current sales pacing curve" by x% to get an indicator as to how you are doing right nowrelative to forcast.
To be honest it's not all indicators - IMHO you can get away with simple charts on phone. The best place to get into the midset of data as a story and simple is best is by subscribing to Storytelling with Data's eDM. They also have a book and Good Charts and Blah Blah Blah, What to Do When Words Don't Work are other good books for ideas. There are a bunch of others.
Tidying up your graph clutter can be done by building in Milestones and Benchmarks to your chart (examples are in the analytic Coffee! wiki). Dynamic colour conditions are also sometimes helpful.
Sorry that's probably more questions than answers but there is an art in that there science.
Thanks Kanani, I downloaded your dashboard to take a look. Do I need to do something after importing a dashboard into my Analytics? It's saying Elasticube Not Found, This dashboard requires ElastiCube "SEAC-Seats and Tickets" to run. How do I change the data source to look at our own data?This is the first time I have imported a dashboard so not sure what the correct procedure is!
Many thanksBest wishes
Dawn
Imported dashboards will remember the original cube, so you will need to change to your company cube. To do this you need to have the dashboard open, then at the top click where it says 2 different data sources (to the right of the Dashboard title), this will open a pop-up screen.If you then hover over the top right of each data source you will see a pencil icon, click on that and it will open your data sources - you can then chose your version of the relevant data source.There's some info with images here - www.tessituranetwork.com/.../Import-a-Dashboard
Great, thanks Caryl, I didn't hover so didn't see the pencil to change it!
You may also need to edit the filters on the dashboard and widget level if "mainstage" is not what you call your public season type.