I am stuck on a dashboard that answers one question. I need to cut a crowded dashboard down to the measures needed for a real decision, but my current attempt is getting vague and too big. What would you check first?
My notes from fixing a dashboard that answers one question
A compact prompt and the response it produced. Replace the bracketed parts with your own details.
First, shrink the decision. Do not solve the whole subject at once.
- Fix the grain before calculating.
- Keep assumptions next to the metric.
- Show uncertainty in the output.
Write down the result you need by the end of this session. Then choose one input you trust and make a first pass that can be checked. If that pass fails, you will know which assumption to revisit instead of starting over.
The smaller decision was the missing piece. I was asking for the whole system at once.
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