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I'm done with dashboards, and likely you should be too

HackerThemAll 3y ago
"...and likely you should be too". That made me not look further. I disrespect people telling others what they "should" be doing.
- karmakaze 3y ago
  The title should really be "I'm done with (people) looking at dashboards all day, and..."
rogual 3y ago
I'm done with articles shoving unsettling AI nightmares in my face.
- leosanchez 3y ago
  AI generated images on blog posts are such a turn off.
- cromka 3y ago
  That's like saying you didn't read the book because you didn't like the font.
  - Sateeshm 3y ago
    Which is a fairly okay reason
- Sateeshm 3y ago
  Yeah. I love looking at good illustrations that are made thoughtfully and observe the little details (thankfully plenty of them still do). AI work puts me off and there's just no wonder.
nobaelazum 3y ago
"I'm done with viewing my useful information."
- tamarlikesdata 3y ago
  Based on the comments here it looks like people are really attached to dashboards. I don't think dashboards are completely going away, but people are not using dashboards properly. There are too many dashboards in every org that no one uses. And definitely, we need something more interactive, that acts based on the end-goals that we need instead of drowning in charts.
- randomdata 3y ago
  If it is worth viewing, why not put it on the HUD? Relegating it to the dashboard suggests you don't find it all that useful.
biscuitech 3y ago
> Toss the results in a report the contributors can access with links to supporting dashboards, then watch your data platform costs drop, contributor productivity increase, and customer retention get longer. So the answer is to use a dashboard.
- ratg13 3y ago
  In the same vein, the term "single pain of glass" has always rubbed me the wrong way. It's just a fancy way to say, don't use other dashboards, use ours.
chronid 3y ago
In infrastructure we build dashboards. And then we build systems to tell us something wrong, and when something is wrong we go and look at the dashboard. Looking at dashboards all day to spot issues is a (pointless) nightmare.
otabdeveloper4 3y ago
His ad-tech DSP example is horrible. In reality, advertisers care about (in order of importance) - Target audience reach (measured in millions of people) - Cost of engagement (CPA, CPM, etc) - Engagement metrics for verification (clicks, views, etc; so you can send bills to your clients and not worry about claims and lawyers) The junk he listed is probably the least interesting information to an advertiser. All of it is technical details that affect your margins as an intermediary, something your clients couldn't care less about.
flarg 3y ago
Dashboards are really calls to action hidden in donut charts. I'd rather just see a text message telling me when to start panicking and why.

"...and likely you should be too". That made me not look further. I disrespect people telling others what they "should" be doing.

karmakaze 3y ago
The title should really be "I'm done with (people) looking at dashboards all day, and..."

rogual 3y ago

I'm done with articles shoving unsettling AI nightmares in my face.

leosanchez 3y ago
AI generated images on blog posts are such a turn off.
cromka 3y ago
That's like saying you didn't read the book because you didn't like the font.
- Sateeshm 3y ago
  Which is a fairly okay reason
Sateeshm 3y ago
Yeah. I love looking at good illustrations that are made thoughtfully and observe the little details (thankfully plenty of them still do). AI work puts me off and there's just no wonder.

nobaelazum 3y ago

"I'm done with viewing my useful information."

tamarlikesdata 3y ago
Based on the comments here it looks like people are really attached to dashboards. I don't think dashboards are completely going away, but people are not using dashboards properly. There are too many dashboards in every org that no one uses. And definitely, we need something more interactive, that acts based on the end-goals that we need instead of drowning in charts.
randomdata 3y ago
If it is worth viewing, why not put it on the HUD? Relegating it to the dashboard suggests you don't find it all that useful.

biscuitech 3y ago

> Toss the results in a report the contributors can access with links to supporting dashboards, then watch your data platform costs drop, contributor productivity increase, and customer retention get longer. So the answer is to use a dashboard.

ratg13 3y ago
In the same vein, the term "single pain of glass" has always rubbed me the wrong way. It's just a fancy way to say, don't use other dashboards, use ours.

chronid 3y ago

In infrastructure we build dashboards. And then we build systems to tell us something wrong, and when something is wrong we go and look at the dashboard. Looking at dashboards all day to spot issues is a (pointless) nightmare.

otabdeveloper4 3y ago

His ad-tech DSP example is horrible. In reality, advertisers care about (in order of importance) - Target audience reach (measured in millions of people) - Cost of engagement (CPA, CPM, etc) - Engagement metrics for verification (clicks, views, etc; so you can send bills to your clients and not worry about claims and lawyers) The junk he listed is probably the least interesting information to an advertiser. All of it is technical details that affect your margins as an intermediary, something your clients couldn't care less about.

flarg 3y ago

Dashboards are really calls to action hidden in donut charts. I'd rather just see a text message telling me when to start panicking and why.