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I suggests everyone read these whitepapers on dashboard design.

http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/Whitepapers/Dashboard... http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/Whitepapers/Common_Pi...

The author also has written a great book on dashboard design.

Operations dashboards are essential for any (tech?) company.

Business dashboards are another beast all together.

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Here is the book: http://www.amazon.com/Information-Dashboard-Design-Effective...

Do you have any additional suggested reading material? Thanks much.

That Stephen Few book is pretty much all you need, but you can also check out Edward Tufte's books, and Juice Analytics' white papers (http://www.juiceanalytics.com/).

There is this as well http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Dashboards-Design-Best-Prac...

The The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) by Leland Wilkinson is also great, though more focused on building graphing systems. I believe it is the inspiration for a lot of d3.js http://www.amazon.com/The-Grammar-Graphics-Statistics-Comput...

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