The goal of this thesis is to improve visualization dashboards in order to help decision
making and Business Intelligence (BI) analysis, and make them accessible to a larger user …

Annotations have been identified as an important aid in analysis record-keeping and
recently data discovery. In this paper we discuss the use of annotations on visualization …

BACKGROUND 0001. An organization uses business intelligence (BI) to analyze data sets
and convert them into knowledge that can be communicated, shared, and interpreted with …

With the increase of visualization platforms targeting novices, researchers are now focusing
on gathering insights regarding novice user practices. We describe the design and …

We will take a brief look at the technologies in the context of the BI stack to help readers put
the significance of dashboard platforms into perspective. Next, we will present the business …

Dashboards are the ubiquitous means of data communication within organizations. Yet we
have limited understanding of how they factor into data practices in the workplace …

Despite the ever-growing popularity of dashboards across a wide range of domains, their
authoring still remains a tedious and complex process. Current tools offer considerable …

Dashboards are one of the most common use cases for data visualization, and their design
and contexts of use are considerably different from exploratory visualization tools. In this …

Dashboards are no longer mere static displays of metrics; through functionality such as
interaction and storytelling, they have evolved to support analytic and communicative goals …

To enable data-driven decision-making across organizations, data professionals need to
share insights with their colleagues in context-appropriate communication channels. Many …