Building Dashboards That People Trust
12 lessons · 6h 40m · Intermediate
Analytics
Intermediate
5.0 · 1,284 students
Most dashboards fail not because the charts are wrong but because nobody can tell whether the numbers are current. This course works through the whole chain: picking metrics that survive a reorg, wiring them to a source of truth, designing the page so staleness is visible, and getting a team to actually adopt it.
What you will be able to do
Choose metrics that stay meaningful for a year
Design a layout that scans in five seconds
Show data freshness without cluttering the page
Pick the right chart for each question
Instrument a legacy dashboard safely
Run a review that removes charts, not adds them
Curriculum
12 lessons · 6h 40m · 7 completed
Why most dashboards are ignored
Metrics, signals and vanity numbers
Workshop: cutting a metric list in half
One source of truth, in practice
Showing freshness and gaps
Timezones will ruin your day
Reconciling against the warehouse
Currently watching — 8:12 of 19:40
Alerting without crying wolf
The five-second scan
Choosing the right chart
Running a removal review
Final project brief
Student reviews
1,284 ratings5.0
Course rating
Ravi Menon2 weeks ago
The removal review in module 3 is worth the price on its own. We deleted eleven charts and nobody noticed except to say the page got faster.
Sofia Rossi1 month ago
Clear, opinionated and short. The timezone lesson alone saved us a week of debugging.
Your progress
7 of 12 lessons64%
Instructor
Sarah Chen
Head of Product, Nexa
Fifteen years of building internal tools, most of them badly at first. Teaches the version she wishes someone had taught her.
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