The Community Dashboard in the journal, The Magnolia Community Initiative Case Exhibit 7 page 27, shows the stakeholders many critical information and conditions that are reflected from the current community, especially the output measures of improvement. However, some of the graphics on the dashboard are difficult to understand and to interpret what those graphs mean. Maybe for some stakeholders, the information are overwhelming. A good dashboard should present the information with graphics that have good visualization and easy to understand. The following are our suggestions to change some of the graphics in order to make a better understanding about MCI community dashboard.
The percentage of 3rd-Grade Children Who Are Proficient in Reading
The first metric is the percentage of 3rd-Grade Children Who Are Proficient in Reading. As we can see on …show more content…
The metric has many measurements and many places where the parents took the surveys. The important thing is the dashboard shows the progress time to time by displaying the charts reflecting the time-series data. The reason the dashboard shows the historical data is to demonstrate the trend line of progress. However, as we can see on the dashboard, it is difficult to follow the dots with monthly basis, which can be seen on the X–axis charts. We suggest changing the period with the quarterly basis of data.
The graphs seemed to be overcrowded with the various pointing shapes, for example, the triangle means the place of the survey is in the community hubs, the square means the place of the survey is in the child care, and so on. Instead of using the shape to differentiate the places, we suggest using the different color to distinguish one place to the other places. The example of suggested graph is as
The percentage of 3rd-Grade Children Who Are Proficient in Reading
The first metric is the percentage of 3rd-Grade Children Who Are Proficient in Reading. As we can see on …show more content…
The metric has many measurements and many places where the parents took the surveys. The important thing is the dashboard shows the progress time to time by displaying the charts reflecting the time-series data. The reason the dashboard shows the historical data is to demonstrate the trend line of progress. However, as we can see on the dashboard, it is difficult to follow the dots with monthly basis, which can be seen on the X–axis charts. We suggest changing the period with the quarterly basis of data.
The graphs seemed to be overcrowded with the various pointing shapes, for example, the triangle means the place of the survey is in the community hubs, the square means the place of the survey is in the child care, and so on. Instead of using the shape to differentiate the places, we suggest using the different color to distinguish one place to the other places. The example of suggested graph is as