Comments on: Chart this Sales Data and get an iPod Touch [Visualization Challenge #2]

By: Best Sales Dashboards, as Voted by You [Visualization Challenge #2 - Winners] | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Charting & Excel Tips - Chandoo.org

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:40:23 +0000

[...] Back in November, 2009, I have asked the readers to come up with best possible ways to visualize a set of fictitious sales data. The objective is to make a dashboard (or chart) that would, help a senior manager understand how the sales people have done in the 24 months. [more] [...]

By: Sales Dashboards - Examples, Templates and Best Practices - Making Sales Dashboards using Excel | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Charting & Excel Tips - Chandoo.org

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:36:05 +0000

[...] sales data to understand the trends and sales performance. So in November, I have asked you to visualize sales data using sample data. The visualization challenge #2, sponsored by Zoho Reports generated a huge buzz around the [...]

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:04:54 +0000

@Faseeh… The post announcing the entries and voting will be up tomorrow. sorry for the delay, but I never expected this many entries. It is such a huge activity to compile all this info and present in an easy to understand manner for readers to look at them and vote. Thanks for your patience.

By: Faseeh

Faseeh — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:34:41 +0000

Hi Chandoo,

I have sent to you an email with an excel sheet for this competition, but i cant see that here. Please give a feed back as i have participated for the first time in any competition on net.
Thanks

FASEEH.

By: Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch! « openBI

Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch! « openBI — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:20:10 +0000

[...] Sie hier – genutzt werden kann. Das Dashboard ist mein Beitrag zu chandoo’s zweitem Visualization Challenge dieses [...]

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:51:15 +0000

Hi Aires… Sorry for the delay. I have been busy with some work and compiling all the entries is a time consuming activity. So I kept it on hold for few days. I should be writing a post pretty soon.

By: Aires

Aires — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:54:49 +0000

Chandoo,

News about the results? I’m very curious to see all the contestants dashboards, to get new ideas for my future ones.

All the best, Aires.

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:23:35 +0000

Hi all.. The contest is closed now. Please do not post any more entries, they will not be considered for the prize.

By: Palo: das Tatooine Inc.-Dashboard – Visualisierung von langweiligen Zufallszahlen « openBI

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:24:41 +0000

[...] zwei Wochen an Bett und Sofa. Da kam die Herausforderung von chandoo in Form eines zweiten „Visualization Challenge“ gerade recht, um die kleinen grauen Zellen nach dem Fieber wieder etwas aufzupeppeln. Den [...]

By: pompadourofdataviz

pompadourofdataviz — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:43:29 +0000

May have missed the deadline, but here goes:
http://cid-4e546fec4f1c6d0d.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/dashboard%20submission.xlsx

I tried to focus on the objective of helping a “senior manager understand how the sales people have done in the 24 months”. Consequently many other interesting aspects of the data not directly related to this issue are explored, nor is there much support for exploratory data analysis. The main visualization uses separate lines for 2008 and 2009; the intent was to take into account the cyclical nature of sales data (although this is not evident with the randomly generated data). One major limitation of the reports that it does not explore interactions among different categorical variables (i.e. light saber sales to the galaxy in the east).