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Finally we get social – How we created our first Twitter dashboard

by Hrishikesh Choudhari on July 22, 2011 · 3 comments

in Showcase

Creating a Twitter dashboard is not an easy task. With Twitter analytics being the cynosure of every web marketer, creating a dashboard that fulfills all their needs is a deeply involving task. A media outlet, generally being a one-way broadcast, would really like to understand whether it is having a meaningful conversation on Twitter. A literary reviewer would like to know how many times his beautiful quote has been favorited or retweeted. With all of these in mind, we decided to take the plunge ourselves and create a Twitter dashboard of our own – FusionTweet! We’ve managed to keep it intuitive and informative, and are very happy about the delicate balance we’ve achieved. Let us walk you through the process of how we created FusionTweet.

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What you can learn about reporting from Google Analytics

by Sanket Nadhani on June 22, 2011 · 1 comment

in Charting Guidelines

If you have ever done anything web, chances are you have heard of Google Analytics. Heck, you would have dived into it and spent countless hours together. It does a great job of pulling out vital stats from the ocean of data that website analytics can be, and presents it to us in an easy-to-understand way. There are some very valuable reporting lessons we can learn from Google Analytics that we will discuss here.
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[Free plugin] Integrate FusionCharts in Pentaho BI dashboards

May 19, 2011 News & Announcements
[Free plugin] Integrate FusionCharts in Pentaho BI dashboards

FusionCharts can now be easily integrated in Pentaho BI dashboards with a plugin developed by Xpand IT. The plugin brings the wow factor of FusionCharts to the popular open source BI suite, and can be used to display eye catching charts on the user console and dashboards. And the best part of it – the plugin is free and open source!

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Conceptualizing an Effective Business Dashboard

December 1, 2009 Charting Guidelines
Conceptualizing an Effective Business Dashboard

Conceptualizing a business dashboard is a complex process. It requires an in-depth knowledge of the business processes involved and deep technical knowledge of how to go about implementing it too. But another aspect that is often overlooked is an understanding of how the end user will interact with the dashboard. A poor understanding of that leads to poorly designed dashboards, which hinders decision-making, and kills the very purpose of the…

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