With the rise of “big data” and a generation of business managers attempting to make decisions based on data rather than instinct, the common output of data science and business analytics teams is business intelligence (BI) dashboards. Increasingly, these dashboards are made available to external users as well. In my experience building and consuming such dashboards, I have come across an observation: if a dashboard is slower than Google Trends
Good observations on dashboard speeds. I think that two important difference between Google Trends and BI dashboards like Tableau and ArcGIS are: (a) the amount of data sent to the browser (b) real-time calculations done within the dashboard. I am no software engineer.... the beauty of Google Trends is that it is so lightweight. Very little data in the browser and no clunky sliders/radio buttons/dynamic filtering. Both of these allow Google Trends to be much faster than Tableau & others.
An Observation on Dashboard Speed
Good observations on dashboard speeds. I think that two important difference between Google Trends and BI dashboards like Tableau and ArcGIS are: (a) the amount of data sent to the browser (b) real-time calculations done within the dashboard. I am no software engineer.... the beauty of Google Trends is that it is so lightweight. Very little data in the browser and no clunky sliders/radio buttons/dynamic filtering. Both of these allow Google Trends to be much faster than Tableau & others.