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“Statistics are like bikinis.  What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” ~Aaron Levenstein

As I’m sitting here creating new dashboards, this quote (or proverb) keeps ringing through my mind.  Am I showing the stats here that merely suggest but conceal insight?  Or I am making a dashboard of a nude woman?  Wait… is that what that quote means?

In all seriousiness though, you want to create dashboards that are going to have the same effect on Sr. Management, as a bikini-less woman would have on the beach.  You want to turn heads, create buzz, generate discussion, and stimulate action.  Are your dashboards turning any heads?

 Here are some helpful blog posts to get you started:

• http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/2007/03/five-rules-for-high-impact-web-analytics-dashboards.html
• http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/21142.asp
• http://theartofwebanalytics.com/?p=8

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