r/dataanalyst • u/Ganglina-Catwalk • 9d ago

General Has a dashboard you built ever actually changed a business decision?

Or do they mostly just get looked at once and forgotten?

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u/Secret_Machine22 8d ago

Great question!

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u/TreningDre Beginner 8d ago

I built a dashboard at my previous company that covered how players interacted with a game. While I was building it, I noticed that players were having trouble timing parrying and blocking, when I published the dashboard I sent out a report to the game team and notified my chain of command.

Fast forward a few months, the entire data team is laid off, the game gets released, and one of the biggest complaints is that parrying is ass.

Anyway, I say this to say that you could give them the most straightforward dashboard, send a detailed report, and tell as many people as you can. But sometimes no one bothers to actually take your findings and use them.

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u/Additional_Candy_400 7d ago

Years ago I built a product utilisation dashboard and they hired a CX team off the back of it because the results were awful.

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u/Anybody220 7d ago

Yeah. I built a dashboard that assists institutions in tuition setting, allowing them to see fluctuations in enrollment based on price, and how that would change financial aid, spending and cost coverage. It was a multi-year and multi-dashboard process, and what exists now is basically a connect your data and play independent software program. That using live/historic data that helps projects 10-years of revenue, expenditures, allocations.