Performance, Strategy & Data Management Consultant | Co-Founder of Victoria Data Society
🛑 ❗ Leaving technical names in your dashboard smacks of inconsideration for your audience. 👀 I’ve seen both inexperienced and more seasoned dashboard developers guilty of this underscore-toting offence and it makes me cringe every time! 😬 You can’t expect your business users to correctly guess what each graph is showing from alphanumeric-and-underscore soup. 🍜 Even for fairly straightforward terms like sales_num - the mature dashboard designer will ensure it is changed it to a properly capitalized and spaced business name label ---- before it ever rests on business users' eyes! 👩💼 👨💼 Check out my article for more info 👇
Scientific Director, Environmental Health at BC Centre for Disease Control
5moAnother one of my biggest pet peeves!