Data Visualization Articles

Key Performance Indicators

An article that discusses a concise methodology and best practices for collecting KPI’s and Metrics for your dashboard projects.
Dashboard Design – Part I

The first in a two part series focusing on dashboard design best practices.
Adobe Max 2009 – Advanced Data Visualization With Flex

This is the presentation Thomas Gonzalez was asked to give at the 2009 annual Adobe MAX corporate conference with over 5000 attendees.
360|Flex 2009 – Data Visualization and Dashboards

This is the presentation Thomas Gonzalez was asked to give at the 2009 360|Flex conference in San Jose, CA.
The Future of Business Intelligence

This article explores where BI is headed and postulates a thesis that the BI industry needs to adopt a new user-centric approach to building intelligent solutions.

Mobile Data Visualization Design

Mobile devices represent new challenges for data visualization design. This article looks at new design approaches for mobile form factors.
Dashboard Design – Part II

The second in a two part series focusing on dashboard design best practices.
Adobe Max 2008 – Data Visualization With Flex

This is the presentation Thomas Gonzalez was asked to give at the 2008 annual Adobe MAX corporate conference with over 4000 attendees.
CF United 2009 – Axiis Open Source Data Visualization

In this presentation Thomas Gonzalez presents the Axiis open source data visualization framework that he co-authored and architected. Axiis broke new ground with its declarative/reaction based programming model and allowed an infinite variety of customization to data visualization on the Adobe Flex platform.