2023/06/28 by Joanna Purich, Purich, Joanna, Arjun Srinivasan +9
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Data Visualization and Analytics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Graphics (cs.GR) #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Information Systems Theories and Implementation #Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2306.16513
openalex publication_date 2023/06/28 · openalex created_date 2023/07/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Dashboards remain ubiquitous artifacts for presenting or reasoning with data across different domains. Yet, there has been little work that provides a quantifiable, systematic, and descriptive overview of dashboard designs at scale. We propose a schematic representation of dashboard designs as node-link graphs to better understand their spatial and interactive structures. We apply our approach to a dataset of 25,620 dashboards curated from Tableau Public to provide a descriptive overview of the core building blocks of dashboards in the wild and derive common dashboard design patterns. To guide future research, we make our dashboard corpus publicly available and discuss its application toward the development of dashboard design tools.