In a recent competition hosted by Perceptual Edge, participants were asked to create a dashboard for airline executives as one of  five data visualization tasks. Stephen Few, who judged the competition, discusses the strengths and weaknesses of MicroChart’s winning dashboard as well as other entries.

This 13-page article is excellent reading for any business professional who is interested in how to build an effective dashboard.

Dashboard Design for Rich and Rapid Monitoring (PDF), by Stephen Few