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Dashboard tips by example- bar charts as cascading filters

This dashboard, a Customer Sales Dashboard for a boutique winery, offers one strategic view of key questions asked by winery management. Information such as amount of sales attributed to various marketing programs, estimated profits by customer segment and number of customers acquired during each of the last four years is displayed.

Using a series of cascading filters based on key customer attributes

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Simple Dashboard Design Strategies Presentation and Making Oil Personal Dashboard

The “Simple Business Dashboard Design Strategies” presentation can be downloaded here. I am presenting this presentation today at 4 PM Pacific on Stacey Barr’s Measure and More Webinar.

The dashboard example in this presentation is available below.

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Upcoming April presentations and books by Freakalytics

We have several presentations and a book release in the the month of April!

We will be at the SAS Global Forum author party Monday afternoon, April 12th. “SAS for Dummies” is being released today, April 5th. I will be at the author party at the SGF conference with Chris Hemedinger (co-author) meeting other authors and SAS conference attendees.

On April 14th at 9 AM, at SAS Global Forum in Seattle, “The Future of Marketing Analytics with SAS Enterprise Guide“.

On April 14th, we are also

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Agriculutural subsidies working against the health of America???

Inspired by a post at Flowing Data, I present three visuals that demonstrate how the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine could improve the presentation of this vital information. I personally found it shocking that US agricultural subsidies were so small

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Green living dashboard – green activities in the daily lives of Americans

Which “green” activities are consumers performing in their everyday lives?

Activities that-

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Dashboard Nirvana and Visual Management of Marketing Programs

View and interact with the strategic customer sales and analyst exploratory dashboards below, both hosted by tableau public.

Read Eileen’s white paper, “Visual Management of Marketing Programs“, for detailed explanations on maximizing Marketing ROI with visual marketing dashboards.

For practical, tested in the trenches advice on creating great dashboards for marketing programs, view Stephen’s Dashboard Nirvana webinar.

In this case study, we used customer demographic and sales databases from a boutique winery in combination with Tableau Software

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Your favorite Freakalytics blog posts of 2009!

Number 6
Waterfall chart examples with detailed instructions on creating them with your own data in Tableau
Waterfall Chart in Tableau and a Superior Alternative…

Number 5
Do your New Year’s resolutions have you wondering where your money goes? Here’s a snapshot of the average American and their spending habits
How the average American spends their income

Number 4
Trying to figure out how to share customer segmentation and lifetime value insights with your business team?
Customer Segmentation and Lifetime Value Analysis

Number 3
Where’s all that oil money going? Which countries are very dependent on oil imports? Which countries have so much oil their citizens will never need to work?
Visual Metrics to Inform: Petro-Wealth Importance by Region and Country

Number 2
A shocker at number 2 since this post is several years old, a testament to the popularity of SAS and the power of SAS Enterprise Guide,
The Joy of SAS Enterprise Guide

Number 1
And, the top blog post with props to Ellie Fields and Chris Stolte at Tableau for their strong editorial review and support, a 100 year dashboard of S&P stock returns and the historic investing environment S&P Composite Stock Market Returns Dashboard

Wishing all of you a happy, successful 2010! Thanks to our many customers and readers for all of your support! Finally, a special thanks to all of our friends at Tableau Software and SAS!

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Rapid Graphs- Tableau for Customer Segmentation and Lifetime Value Analysis

This was presented at the Tableau Conference 2009. It is about the tremendous opportunities to leverage customer segmentation and lifetime value data at the individual customer level. Click here for the presentation.

Identifying segments for every customer can unlock long-hidden value for your marketing team. Combining this information with Tableau creates a simple means for marketing owners to evaluate and improve their decisions.

A second opportunity is adding lifetime value estimates to each customer as you acquire them and as their behavior adds additional information to inform their value. With lifetime value estimates, you will gain a huge competitive advantage in evaluating your the long-term value of your marketing investments and product decisions. Are your most expensive programs just impacting short-term outcomes and only reaching lower value customers? How are your customers being affected by a blend of marketing programs over time?

Click here to see a summary view on Tableau Public which was constructed from part of the Tableau workbook used in this presentation. Many thanks to Ellie Fields at Tableau for selecting the views and publishing this summary!

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