References: Reporting and Dashboards
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Dashboard (business) - Wikipedia - Overview of business dashboard design principles including key performance indicators, visual hierarchy, and real-time data presentation. Core reference for the executive and operational dashboard patterns in this chapter.
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Data Visualization - Wikipedia - Covers visualization theory, chart types, perceptual principles, and interactive techniques. Essential background for translating graph metrics into clear, actionable visual presentations for leadership.
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Anomaly Detection - Wikipedia - Statistical and machine learning methods for identifying unusual patterns in data streams. Applicable to the alerting systems that monitor organizational graph metrics for significant deviations from baselines.
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (2nd Edition) - Edward Tufte - Graphics Press (2001) - The classic reference on data visualization principles including data-ink ratio, chartjunk elimination, and small multiples. Directly applicable to designing clean, effective organizational analytics dashboards.
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Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals - Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic - Wiley (2015) - Practical guide to communicating data insights to business audiences through context, visual design, and narrative structure. Relevant to presenting organizational analytics findings to leadership.
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Information Dashboard Design - Wikipedia - Specific design guidelines for dashboard layout, color usage, interaction patterns, and progressive disclosure applicable to organizational analytics reporting interfaces.
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Key Performance Indicator - Wikipedia - Frameworks for defining and measuring KPIs that drive organizational decision-making. Provides context for selecting which graph metrics (centrality, connectivity, community health) to surface on dashboards.
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Business Intelligence - Wikipedia - Overview of BI tools, OLAP cubes, and reporting architectures. Provides context for how organizational graph analytics integrates with existing enterprise reporting infrastructure.
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D3.js Data-Driven Documents - Observable - Documentation for the JavaScript library commonly used to create custom, interactive network visualizations and dashboards in web-based organizational analytics applications.
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Apache Superset - Apache Foundation - Open-source business intelligence platform for creating interactive dashboards and visualizations. Example of modern BI tooling that can connect to graph database query results for organizational reporting.