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Week 6: Business Reporting, Visual Analytics & Dashboards (Part 2)…

- - - - Unnecessary borders around sections of data fragment the display
      - Avoid complete borders when a single set of axes would adequately define the space
      - Eliminate graphics that provide nothing but decoration
      - Unneccesary fill colors to separate sections of the display are distracting
      - Gradients of fill color both on the bars and background add distracting non-data pixels
      - Grid lines in graphs are not useful
      - 3D should be avoided when the added dimension of depth doesn't represent actual data
    - - Instructions take up valuable space. Hence, they can be displayed only when needed through a separate screen or pop-up menu
      - Navigational controls should not take up more space than the visual displays
      - Axis lines and gridlines can be useful but should be muted
  - - - Removing less relevant data
      - Condensing data through: Summaries, Exception
      - Multi-foci displays
      - Information that is always important can be emphasized using static means
      - Information that is only important at the moment requires a dynamic means of emphasis
    - - Layout of dashboard should not change dynamically
      - Different regions of a dashboard has different degrees of visual emphasis