Dashboards are important when it comes to summarising data for quick insights therefore your choice of visualisations becomes key in how effective your dashboards are. Abigail Kearney of xViz has written a blog post on tips and tricks on how to create Power BI dashboards that are interactive and insightful.

In her post, she argued that for dashboards to have the desired impact and support effective decision making, the information on a dashboard need to be connected and telling a story. Abigail’s tips for giving your dashboards the wow factor are:

1. Use of well-know standards of representation

2. Reduction in non-data ink

3. Effective use of colours and themes

4. Interactive storytelling

5. Provision of data drilldown option

6. Selection of the right visual

7. Customisation of the elements of a visual

Why not head over to xViz’s blog for more details on Abigail’s 7 tips?