ASU Data Users, Master
Channel: Guy Mullins
Date: 2012-06-29

Gordon Wishon, CIO and John Rome, Deputy CIO and BI Strategist at Arizona State University.

- The business intelligence team at Arizona State University created a dashboard to track usage of the various existing dashboards and tools — putting analytics on top of analytics.

- The usage dashboard serves as a performance metric for the BI team: adoption rate is a measure of the team's success.

- As a tool for research, ASU's dashboards deliver not only a single version of research activity but also a visual spark line of 36 months to help identify trends in awards, compared with proposals and expenditures.

- Heat maps, spark lines, bullet charts, bubble and scatter charts, tree maps, tag-and-word clouds, and geographic maps are all visualizations that can help users consume information more easily.