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Business dashboards provide visually compelling, executive views into key performance measures across the enterprise, enabling quick insights into real time data. Red zones like rising inventory levels, falling sales volume, and narrowing margins are easily identified in at-a-glance snapshots. Data transforms into immediate and relevant insight.

Below is an interactive gallery with MicroStrategy Customer Dashboards and Industry and Role-based Dashboards.

Also see the kinds of business insights possible with dashboards in our iPhone Apps Gallery and iPad Apps Gallery.

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Real-world Dashboards from MicroStrategy Customers

Amica Bank of Montreal CMS Codere Discovery Editora Abril Edmunds.com Electronic Arts Generali Herbalife Hungarian Post MD Anderson MySpace TAP Portugal U.S. Postal Service Visa

Amica
Branch Performance Dashboard
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Amica
Branch Performance Dashboard

Industry: Insurance
Application: Performance Management
Features: Time Series Slider, Bar
Bank of Montreal
Purchase Volume Dashboard
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Bank of Montreal
Purchase Volume Dashboard

Industry: Finance
Application: Financial Analysis
Features: Line, Column
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Inpatient Prospective Payment System Dashboard
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Inpatient Prospective Payment System Dashboard

The CMS dashboard offers transparency into Medicare spending data. The dashboard shortcuts the process of compiling the data and provides easy access for citizens to view the information at their convenience. With data from over 40 million Medicare hospital admissions, the dashboard enables the public to view the relationships between cost and volume of Medicare admissions by State, starting in January 2006. Every month, the data will be updated with nearly one million more admissions.
Codere
Customer Analysis
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Codere
Customer Analysis

Industry: Hospitality and Gaming
Application: Customer Analysis
Features: Gauge, Line, Column
Codere
Financial Analysis
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Codere
Financial Analysis

Industry: Hospitality and Gaming
Application: Financial Analysis
Features: Gauge, Line, Bullet Graph
Discovery Communications
US Affiliate Dashboard
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Discovery Communications
US Affiliate Dashboard

Industry: Media and Entertainment
Application: Media Analysis, Operations Analysis
Features: Time Series Slider, Microchart, Interactive Bubble Graph, Graph Matrix, Stacked Area, Stacked Column, Pie
Editora Abril
Monthly Performance Dashboard
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Editora Abril
Monthly Performance Dashboard

Editora Abril’s dashboard provides a monthly view of subscription operations to managers in an effort to increase productivity and reduce operational costs by enabling users to efficiently analyze operating processes such as magazine distribution, customer payments, sales, and promotions.
Edmunds
Monthly Traffic Analysis
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Edmunds
Monthly Traffic Analysis

Industry: Retail, eCommerce, Automotive
Application: Operations Analysis, Web & eCommerce Analysis
Features: Line, Column
Edmunds
Web Site Analysis
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Edmunds
Web Site Analysis

Industry: Retail, eCommerce, Automotive
Application: Operations Analysis, Web & eCommerce Analysis
Features: Line, Column
Electronic Arts
Store Highlights
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Electronic Arts
Store Highlights

Industry: Software
Application: Customer Analysis
Features: World Map, Interactive Bubble Graph, Time Series Slider, Bar, Column, Line
Generali
BI Dashboard
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Generali
BI Dashboard

GEB’s dashboard provides over 5 years of data to help identify trends and critical issues, improving profitability.
Herbalife
Sales Performance
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Herbalife
Sales Performance

This dashboard shows current and trending performance data for top sales team members. The dashboard allows immediate, easy access to sales force KPIs that are consistent with Herbalife’s corporate-wide KPIs. This enables the company to align the sales organization’s goals with corporate goals, and gives executives instant access to the most requested information during strategy meetings and motivational calls.
Hungarian Post
Mail Delivery Performance
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Hungarian Post
Mail Delivery Performance

Hungarian Post’s dashboard helps managers responsible for local or global delivery processes track mail recipient changes and gain insights for appropriate actions through the use of graphical visualizations.
MD Anderson
Education Dashboard
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MD Anderson
Education Dashboard

Industry: Healthcare, Education
Application: Operations Analysis
Features: Line, Column
MySpace
Site Performance
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MySpace
Site Performance

Industry: Media and Entertainment
Application: Operations Analysis, Web & eCommerce Analysis
Features: Sparkline
TAP Portugal
Flight Operations Dashboard
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TAP Portugal
Flight Operations Dashboard

TAP Portugal’s dashboard provides a daily evaluation of flight operations, performance, costs, and waste control. The MicroStrategy dashboard measures operational performance through key performance indicators linked to budget control and forecast scenarios.
U.S. Postal Service
Employee Receivable Analysis
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U.S. Postal Service
Employee Receivable Analysis

More than 70,000 United States Postal Service (USPS) managers have access to the Outstanding Receivables Dashboard to manage outstanding employee receivables. The dashboard, accessible from an intranet, helps operating managers monitor and take action on employee receivables, such as payroll issues, travel advance overpayments, and cash register shortages.
Visa
Corporate Performance
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Visa
Corporate Performance

Industry: Finance
Application: Performance Management
Features: Interactive Bubble Graph, Pie, Line
Alloso Technologies
Executive Dashboard
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Alloso Technologies
Executive Dashboard

The objective of this dashboard is to help users conduct a financial assessment of a customer’s company in terms of the key metrics: Revenue, RevPAR (Revenue per Average Room), ADR (Average Daily Rate) and Occupancy %. With this dashboard, over 1,000 users, ranging from executives to hotel managers, can compare daily business operational KPIs against historical trends.
Pinnacle Corporation
YTD Performance Dashboard
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Pinnacle Corporation
YTD Performance Dashboard

Industry: Retail
Application: Performance Management
Features: Line, Graph Matrix
Pinnacle Corporation
13 Week Product Performance
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Pinnacle Corporation
13 Week Product Performance

Industry: Retail
Application: Performance Management, Operations Analysis
Features: Interactive Bubble Graph, Line
Primatics Financial
Portfolio Performance Dashboard
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Primatics Financial
Portfolio Performance Dashboard

Industry: Finance
Application: Financial Analysis
Features: Line, Column, Bar

Cutting-edge Industry and Role-based Dashboards

Category Management
Interactive Maps
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Category Management
Interactive Maps

Visualizations can be imported or created using Adobe Flex Builder. This dashboard was created using an imported map visualization to analyze regional profitability. A more detailed perspective of information is provided in the grid. This dashboard enables an intuitive navigational experience where users can logically analyze the data and perform OLAP manipulations directly on the dashboard.
Category Sales & Profitability
Scorecards, Interactive Grids
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Category Sales & Profitability
Scorecards, Interactive Grids

This dashboard provides a quick summary of category performance. Using basic graphs such as a bar graph and column graph, users can quickly perform an item comparison broken down by region and a trend analysis broken down by month. For a more detailed analysis, a breakdown of data by Quarter and Subcategory is provided in grid format at the bottom of the dashboard.
Customer Support
Spark Lines, Bullet Graphs
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Customer Support
Spark Lines, Bullet Graphs

MicroStrategy dashboards enable users to interact with data quickly to make more informed decisions much faster. Using visualizations such as sparklines, bullet graphs, and standard bar charts, large amounts of data can be easily turned into comprehensible and actionable insight. Key statistics such as number of open cases, new cases, closed cases, and average resolution time can be analyzed. A summary of the top five engineers and top five customers with the most open cases is visible for a quick analysis of operations. Trends for monthly open cases in each support center can be analyzed using a sparkline. Important KPIs can easily be compared to targets using a bullet graph for benchmark analysis.
Department of Transportation
Fisheye Selector, Video
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Department of Transportation
Fisheye Selector, Video

From this dashboard, it can be determined that population, wealth, education level, and work locations influence the likelihood of using public transportation. Wealthier, higher educated counties in heavily populated high traffic areas are more likely to take public transportation. Using this dashboard, the California high-speed rail system can leverage visualizations such as the media player to display videos outlining the goals and forecasting information critical to the future rail system. Through a series of graphs and visualizations, you can start to evaluate key demographic indicators to evaluate ideal stations for high-speed rail development in California.
Fertility Rate & Life Expectancy
Interactive Bubble Graphs
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Fertility Rate & Life Expectancy
Interactive Bubble Graphs

Bubble charts are similar to dot charts since they enable users to perform a correlation analysis on the data, but the size of bubbles within the bubble chart add an additional dimension to the data analysis. The large bubbles represent different continents. The size of the bubble represents a third dimension -- population size. Data can be viewed at a more detailed level -- the country level -- when you double-click on a bubble. Fertility rates and life expectancy have a negative correlation. As life expectancy continues to improve across the world, the fertility rate is decreasing.
Income Statement Analysis
Waterfall What-If Analysis
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Income Statement Analysis
Waterfall What-If Analysis

This dashboard uses a customized widget provided through MicroStrategy’s SDK to analyze the impact of income statement items on net income. Performing a what-if analysis, the net income will fluctuate based on interactive user selections.
Operations Dashboard
Gauges, Bubble Grids
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Operations Dashboard
Gauges, Bubble Grids

Dashboards can be used to combine visualizations and a large amount of data into nearly self-contained applications called DashboardApps. Each panel provides information critical to a Support Center Manager in order to help them understand and manage operations. Key statistics such as number of open cases, new cases, closed cases, and average resolution time can be analyzed over the past month or past year, depending on the view selected. Performing a benchmark analysis, important KPIs can easily be compared to targets using gauges. Evaluating other areas such as product adoption or other levels such as regional performance, provide a better analysis of all support operations so analysts or managers can more easily cater to high-priority customers and meet operational targets. Visualizations such as sparklines, bullet graphs, animated bubble charts, and heat maps can convert tremendous amounts of data into comprehensible, actionable insight.
Recovery.gov
Top/Bottom 10 Ranking
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Recovery.gov
Top/Bottom 10 Ranking

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act addresses a number of infrastructural problems across the country that have been neglected for years while at the same time providing a stimulus to our economy, creating and saving millions of jobs for the American people. A key tenet of the Recovery Act was the unprecedented levels of accountability and transparency that President Obama asked of all of the 31 participating federal agencies. This dynamic dashboard is based on the data provided by the US Federal Government Agencies on the status of their activities as part of the Recovery Act. This dashboard enables citizens across the country to perform more analysis on the data provided by the federal agencies by providing aggregate, visual, and interactive views of all of the reported data.
Region & Category Analysis
Heat Mapping
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Region & Category Analysis
Heat Mapping

Visualizations condense large amounts of data into an easy-to-understand sizeable graph. Heat maps are used to identify problematic levels of information. Heat maps quickly illustrate the state and impact of a large number of variables at once. The fundamental benefit of the heat map is that it allows you to quickly recognize complicated data relationships that may not be so obvious. Although the analysis is similar to a pie chart or group of pie charts, heat maps provide additional dimensionality that enables you to evaluate multiple variables simultaneously based on the size and color of each square. The format of each square is set by individual metrics that can be changed on-the-fly through interactive dashboard controls. A set of interactive controls provide end users with the flexibility to analyze data with their own unique requirements. As users need to focus in on particular areas of the heat map, they can remove individual or groups of squares.
Regional Performance
Time Selector, Dials
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Regional Performance
Time Selector, Dials

Using a series of threshold values on gauges, this dashboard quickly identifies the growth of three key performance indicators: revenue, profit, and profit margin. Using a standard column chart, users can perform a quick time-series analysis on the data to better understand which regions are performing well and which regions are under-performing for each month.
Revenue Performance
Predictive Analysis, Graph Matrix
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Revenue Performance
Predictive Analysis, Graph Matrix

MicroStrategy advanced visualizations enable dashboards to condense a significant amount of information in a small space while reducing the impact on dashboard performance and size. Taking a grid of data that contains too many rows and columns, MicroStrategy is able to display this same data in a single, easy to view graph matrix. Zooming in on a particular graph provides more detail.
Sales Overview
Dynamic Filters, Multiple Graphs
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Sales Overview
Dynamic Filters, Multiple Graphs

This dashboard provides a summary of business performance, by organizing multiple reports into a single layout. The dashboard workflow has been streamlined for quicker and more effective resolutions by providing an analysis of business performance at the corporate, regional, or store level. In-dashboard controls provide intuitive dashboard navigation. Dashboards are easy to use, increasing user productivity and self-service. Using visualizations or visual indicators such as thresholds, data trends or activity are easy to monitor for key performance indicators (KPI’s).
Top 10 World Airports
Media Widgets
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Top 10 World Airports
Media Widgets

Analyzing passenger volume trends overtime can be used both by customers to help understand ideal dates for travel and by airlines to understand which months and locations to run promotions in an effort to increase air travel. This dashboard uses a microchart to evaluate KPIs such as monthly passenger volume, growth rates, and percentage of international travelers. The media image and details below dynamically change based on an airport selection. A bubble grid or line chart display historical trends, enabling airlines to quickly identify which airports are growing the fastest to determine if there is an opportunity to establish a new hub for a given location.

MicroStrategy Dynamic Dashboards

MicroStrategy Business Intelligence is industry-leading technology that makes dashboards faster to run and easier to develop.

Dashboard capabilities:

New! 10x faster dashboard response times

Corporate performance management, including scenario analysis, KPI monitoring, and collaboration

Monitoring personal or work group contributions to overall goals

Easy-to-use, instant access to enterprise data in summary views

Consolidation of data from multiple, diverse data sources and types

Full OLAP drilling capabilities for deeper analysis

Personalized views based on role, group, and selections

Data interactivity (view dashboard demos)

Pixel Perfect, desktop publishing quality

Tabbed paging through multiple perspectives of the business

Animated visual effects illustrating trends over time

Mobility and offline-portability

Access online, on mobile devices, as email attachments or links, and via printer, fax, and file server

Flexible, efficient delivery based on time and event-based triggers set individually for self-service or centrally managed

Data visualization widgets, including dynamic selector controls

Predictive analytics and forecasting

Dashboard development features:

New! Rapid application development with MicroStrategy’s Jump-Start Project

New! Next Generation DashboardApps with more data and better distribution (read white paper)

No coding or programming required

Business user accessible design using out-of-the-box dashboard templates

Choice of thin-client DHTML/AJAX development and interactive Adobe® Flash® development

Powerful, graphical zone-based layout techniques

WYSIWYG smart design assistants

Multi-layout documents combine multiple dashboards into one convenient “dashboard book”

HTML-accessible content like real-time stock tickers are easily incorporated

A library of autostyles for consistent and easy formatting within and across dashboards

A library of advanced visualizations with interactivity and analytical richness (view interactive demos)

Parameterization enables a single dynamic dashboard to replace hundreds of static designs

Metadata-driven development enables object reuse for fast development and easy maintenance

MicroStrategy Dashboard FAQ

How can I learn more about MicroStrategy’s dashboard capabilities?

Request a free data visualization dashboard
Attend a free Dashboards, Reports, and Analytics class
Read the MicroStrategy DashboardApps White Paper
Watch the on-demand webcast, Build Fully Fledged Business Dashboards in One Day
Download free evaluation software, which includes a sample Tutorial project and pre-built dashboard samples

What dashboard data visualizations are available in MicroStrategy?

MicroStrategy offers a comprehensive range of data visualizations:

Gauges
Dials
Heat maps
Graphs

Tables
Scorecards
Speedometers
Traffic lights

Spark lines
Bullet graphs
Waterfalls
Graph matrices

Funnels
Bubble graphs
Bubble grids
Data clouds

What OLAP capabilities do I have within a MicroStrategy dashboard?

Users have the ability to drill within the document, drill anywhere, or disable drilling. Drilling capabilities can be applied to a grid or graph, enabling users to perform an investigative analysis directly on a dashboard, scorecard, or enterprise report. Users can drill out of the dashboard to investigate across the data warehouse or multiple data sources and generate new information-rich reports. Using the multi-select feature, business users can dynamically select any group of elements and create derived element groups on the fly. Elements can be removed or added dynamically and users can create their own calculations between various groups or individual items. For even faster performance and response time, Intelligent Cubes can be included in dashboards.

I want only one version of the dashboard to view in Flash and DHTML (AJAX), but I have Flash-advanced visualizations in the dashboard. How can I design this dashboard for DHTML?

Only one design of the dashboard is required. Flash-advanced visualizations have flash plug-ins that are maintained within the container of the advanced visualization. Flash-advanced visualizations can be rendered in both Flash and DHTML, and the same controls are made available to users, enabling a seamless integration between Flash and DHTML design.

How can users design dashboards quickly and without programming experience or training?

MicroStrategy offers out-of-the box templates that provide a great starting point for dashboard designers. Each template contains a series of containers, or panel stacks, that enable users to quickly add components to each panel stack, such as: text boxes, shapes, reports, grids, graphs, panel stacks, HTML containers, selectors, and widgets. Also, customized templates can be created to place the design experience in the hands of end-users. These customized templates can include the corporate logo and corporate design schemes and colors. Users can simply drag, drop, and select dashboard components to quickly design a dashboard in the matter of minutes. MicroStrategy customers have access to additional templates and graph styles for the most popular MicroStrategy designed dashboards through the, MicroStrategy Jump-Start Project for rapid dashboard development.

What are DashboardApps? Do I need additional product licenses for DashboardApps?

Newly launched in MicroStrategy 9 Release 2, DashboardApps are next generation dashboards that can be used to replace thousands of operational reports. DashboardApps contain large amounts of data in easy-to-consume visualizations. Additionally, DashboardApps support faster, larger scale dashboard distribution. DashboardApps are available through the MicroStrategy Report Services license, as of MicroStrategy 9 Release 2. For more information, see the MicroStrategy DashboardApps White Paper.

Business Dashboards

Dashboard Resources

In the News

Interactive Dashboard Gallery

Real-world Dashboards from MicroStrategy Customers

Amica

AmicaBranch Performance Dashboard

Bank of Montreal

Bank of MontrealPurchase Volume Dashboard

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesInpatient Prospective Payment System Dashboard

Codere

CodereCustomer Analysis

Codere

CodereFinancial Analysis

Discovery Communications

Discovery CommunicationsUS Affiliate Dashboard

Editora Abril

Editora AbrilMonthly Performance Dashboard

Edmunds

EdmundsMonthly Traffic Analysis

Edmunds

EdmundsWeb Site Analysis

Electronic Arts

Electronic ArtsStore Highlights

Generali

GeneraliBI Dashboard

Herbalife

HerbalifeSales Performance

Hungarian Post

Hungarian PostMail Delivery Performance

MD Anderson

MD AndersonEducation Dashboard

MySpace

MySpaceSite Performance

TAP Portugal

TAP PortugalFlight Operations Dashboard

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Postal ServiceEmployee Receivable Analysis

Visa

VisaCorporate Performance

Alloso Technologies

Alloso TechnologiesExecutive Dashboard

Pinnacle Corporation

Pinnacle CorporationYTD Performance Dashboard

Pinnacle Corporation

Pinnacle Corporation13 Week Product Performance

Primatics Financial

Primatics FinancialPortfolio Performance Dashboard

Cutting-edge Industry and Role-based Dashboards

Category Management

Category ManagementInteractive Maps

Category Sales & Profitability

Category Sales & ProfitabilityScorecards, Interactive Grids

Customer Support

Customer SupportSpark Lines, Bullet Graphs

Department of Transportation

Department of TransportationFisheye Selector, Video

Fertility Rate & Life Expectancy

Fertility Rate & Life ExpectancyInteractive Bubble Graphs

Income Statement Analysis

Income Statement AnalysisWaterfall What-If Analysis

Operations Dashboard

Operations DashboardGauges, Bubble Grids

Recovery.gov

Recovery.govTop/Bottom 10 Ranking

Region & Category Analysis

Region & Category AnalysisHeat Mapping

Regional Performance

Regional PerformanceTime Selector, Dials

Revenue Performance

Revenue PerformancePredictive Analysis, Graph Matrix

Sales Overview

Sales OverviewDynamic Filters, Multiple Graphs

Top 10 World Airports

Top 10 World AirportsMedia Widgets

MicroStrategy Dynamic Dashboards

MicroStrategy Dashboard FAQ

How can I learn more about MicroStrategy’s dashboard capabilities?

What dashboard data visualizations are available in MicroStrategy?

Amica
Branch Performance Dashboard

Bank of Montreal
Purchase Volume Dashboard

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Inpatient Prospective Payment System Dashboard

Codere
Customer Analysis

Codere
Financial Analysis

Discovery Communications
US Affiliate Dashboard

Editora Abril
Monthly Performance Dashboard

Edmunds
Monthly Traffic Analysis

Edmunds
Web Site Analysis

Electronic Arts
Store Highlights

Generali
BI Dashboard

Herbalife
Sales Performance

Hungarian Post
Mail Delivery Performance

MD Anderson
Education Dashboard

MySpace
Site Performance

TAP Portugal
Flight Operations Dashboard

U.S. Postal Service
Employee Receivable Analysis

Visa
Corporate Performance

Alloso Technologies
Executive Dashboard

Pinnacle Corporation
YTD Performance Dashboard

Pinnacle Corporation
13 Week Product Performance

Primatics Financial
Portfolio Performance Dashboard

Category Management
Interactive Maps

Category Sales & Profitability
Scorecards, Interactive Grids

Customer Support
Spark Lines, Bullet Graphs

Department of Transportation
Fisheye Selector, Video

Fertility Rate & Life Expectancy
Interactive Bubble Graphs

Income Statement Analysis
Waterfall What-If Analysis

Operations Dashboard
Gauges, Bubble Grids

Recovery.gov
Top/Bottom 10 Ranking

Region & Category Analysis
Heat Mapping

Regional Performance
Time Selector, Dials

Revenue Performance
Predictive Analysis, Graph Matrix

Sales Overview
Dynamic Filters, Multiple Graphs

Top 10 World Airports
Media Widgets