Skip to main content

This page has been translated using TexTra by NICT. Please note that the translation may not be completely accurate.If you find any mistranslations, we appreciate your feedback on the "Request form for improving the automatic translation ".

Dashboard Design Practitioner Guide and Chart Component Library (Beta)

Last Updated:

Dashboard Design Practitioner Guide and Chart Component Library (Beta)

Update Information

Digital Agency is pleased to announce the release of PowerBI's Charting Component Library of hands-on guides and dashboard development tools to help improve quality and design efficiency in dashboard development.
Download Materials.

Purpose of disclosure

Digital Agency plays a leading part in the promotion of data-based and evidence-based policy decisions and the visualization of their effects within the Government of Japan. As part of this role, we provide practical guidebooks and other materials so that people working in public administration, public institutions, and private companies can efficiently develop easy-to-understand dashboards. By making data-based visualization easy to understand, we aim to have correct and common understanding among many stakeholders, improve the quality of decision-making, and lead to better behavior.
The Practical Guidebook is an organized and systematized version of the Policy Data-Dashboard , which reflects the opinions of government officials and private experts on dashboards and data-visualization, in addition to the knowledge gained from the creation of the Hokkaido Policy Data-Dashboard, which was implemented in Digital Agency.
It is aimed at all people, regardless of whether they are employees of government or public institutions, private sector, or individuals, who want to promote services using data but are unsure about how to use it appropriately.

Features of the Practical Guidebook

Processes to improve and streamline dashboards

It introduces the process to improve and strengthen QCD (Quality, Cost, Delivery), including the arrangement of dashboard requirements and the building of consensus with project stakeholders through prototypes.

Information representation that contributes to the behavior and decision-making of viewers

It introduces information expressions (layout, graph expressions, etc.) and Do's (desirable expressions) / Dont's (undesirable expressions) that are necessary to encourage decision-making and behavior change, such as expressions that allow viewers to know what they want to know and expressions that do not cause misunderstanding.

Chart Library Features

A grid system for creating organized layouts

In order for anyone to organize and arrange (layout) charts, we provide a grid system to serve as a basis for the layout. By simply arranging charts according to the grid, you can create dashboards with an easy-to-read layout.

Sample graphs with improved text and graph sizes and colors

Graph samples (bar graphs, line graphs, pie graphs, etc.) with improved text and graph sizes and colors are provided, and work efficiency can be improved by using them.

Download Materials

Practical guidebook

Cover of the dashboard design practice guidebook

Chart Component Library (Beta)

Materials related to the Practical Guidebook

You can also download the related materials listed in the Practical Guidebook from the following.

Examples of design applications

Examples of the application of this guidebook and the chart component library are introduced.

Comments and Requests

If you have any questions or ideas, please send them to us through Comments and Requests .