Nick Desbarats
As an independent educator and best-selling author, Nick Desbarats has taught data visualization and information dashboard design to thousands of professionals in over a dozen countries at organizations such as NASA, Bloomberg, Visa, The United Nations, Shopify, The Internal Revenue Service, and The Central Bank of Tanzania.
Nick is the author of the Amazon #1 New Release “Practical Charts” (2023) and the upcoming “Practical Dashboards” (2025) books, and he regularly contributes articles to The Journal of the Data Visualization Society (Nightingale) that are among that publication’s most widely read and shared.
Why Aren’t People Using My Dashboard?
You built a shiny new dashboard to help colleagues make data-driven decisions. You listened to their needs, studied dashboards designed by experts, and launched your baby into the world to... crickets.
Everyone logged in immediately after launch but usage then fell off a cliff. When you ask why, you get vague answers like “I’m too busy” (code for "It's not giving me enough value") or “It’s missing what I need” (despite the fact you built exactly what they asked for).
What’s going on? Most dashboards fail to answer basic questions like, “Are these numbers good or bad?” or “Do any of these numbers require action?” Often, important problems don’t appear on the dashboard at all.
Designing dashboards that meet these fundamental needs isn’t easy, but it is doable. How? Find out in this engaging talk by dashboard design expert and best-selling author Nick Desbarats.
Nick will also giving a workshop on Practical Dashboards Masterclass on Monday, October 6.
- On the web
- https://www.practicalreporting.com/
- On LinkedIn
- nickdesbarats