#70 Building dashboards like a pro

Daniel Perry-Reed•10 February 2023•49 min listen

This week Dan and Dara talk about their experiences in building automated dashboards. There's 1,001 ways to approach building them, so Dan and Dara go through the common missteps, how to scope and plan it out effectively, and even ways to measure the usefulness and consumption of them! Listen to the end to hear their great new business idea...

Dan mentioned that April 3rd 2023 is when we launch our new GA4 Immersion 6-week cohort training course - 50% early bird discount per ticket available now!

So Dan bought ratemydash.com, but now we need someone that wants to help build it - is that you? Email Dan and Dara on podcast@measurelab.co.uk if you fancy it!

This is the last episode for a few weeks, Dan and Dara need their beauty sleep... Back in a few weeks with more nattering and the occasional guest!

In other news, Dan makes videos and Dara reads about wildlife!

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Quote of the episode from Dan: "...if you have a terrible looking dashboard with perfect data, no one's ever going to use it unfortunately. If you have a very beautiful interactive dashboard with terrible data, people will use it."

Quote of the episode from Dara: "...you don't use dashboards when you are doing analysis work, you probably go into GA or wherever else you're going to get the data from, because you just don't quite get, no matter how sophisticated the dashboard is, you're probably going to reach a point where you're like, oh, I can't quite get what I need out of here..."

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