Here are some best practices to consider when adding visualizations to your dashboards:
- Use visualizations to provide insight in a way that cannot be easily represented by tabular data.
- It can sometimes be useful to have a chart supported with a table, as a table can make finding absolute numbers easier.
- Provide enough information, but not too much. Do not overload charts with data that is not pertinent to achieving the goal of the visualization.
- Do not overload dashboards with visualizations. Spread visualizations out among a few dashboards rather than overloading one specific dashboard. This makes things easier for your users to view as well as improves performance.
- Stacked charts are your friend, especially ...
