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Dashboard Design Practice Guidebook and Chart Component Library (Beta)

Dashboard Design Practice Guidebook and Chart Component Library (Beta)

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Digital Agency is contributing to quality improvement in Dashboard development and efficiency in design by publishing a practical guidebook and the Dashboard development tool PowerBI's Chart Component Library.
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Purpose of Disclosure

Digital Agency leads the promotion of data-based visualization of policy decisions and effects within the Government of Japan. We provide practical guidebooks and other materials so that people engaged in public administration, public institutions, and private sector companies can efficiently make development with easy-to-understand dashboards. By making data visualization easy-to-understand, we aim to have a correct common understanding among many parties, improve the quality of decision making, and lead to better action.
In addition to the knowledge at the time of creation of the Digital Agency Policy Data Dashboard , which has been practiced in , the Practical Guidebook has been organized and systematized by reflecting the opinions of administrative officials and private sector experts on the dashboard and data visualization.
Whether you are an employee of a government or public organization, private business, or person, we are targeted at anyone who wants to use data to promote services but is confused about how to use it properly.

Features of the Practical Guidebook

Process for dashboard quality improvement and efficiency

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

A representation of information that contributes to the viewer's actions and decisions

It introduces information expression (layout, graph expression, etc.) and Do's (desirable expression) / Dont's (undesirable expression) necessary to encourage human decision-making and behavioral change, such as expression that allows viewers to know what they want to know and does not cause misunderstanding.

Chart Library Features

A grid system for creating organized layouts

To help anyone organize and arrange (lay out) their charts, we provide a grid system that serves as the basis for layout. You can create a dashboard with a layout that is easy to see by simply arranging the charts according to the grid.

A graph sample with the size, color, etc. of text and graph adjusted

We provide graph samples (bar graphs, line graphs, pie graphs, etc.) with adjusted text, graph size, color, etc., and you can use them to efficiency your work.

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Practical Guidebook

Dashboard Design Practice Guidebook Cover

Chart Component Library (Beta)

Related Materials in the Practical Guidebook

Related materials published in the Practical Guidebook can also be downloaded from the following.

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