Gone are the PDFs that used to be the static receptacles of data. Now there’s Dashboard. A way to show data as gauges, charts and tables in a more dynamic way

At ASU, we’re moving into this more dynamic format so that a media person, a student or a researcher may be able to get to see the university not as a list of numbers, but by seeing these numbers map out a context.

It’s called ASU Dashboard. Some data like this is public. Other areas require a student/staff/faculty login. The data can be exported to an Excel file, or converted to a PDF.

Visualization and data and using it for decision making has come a long way since PowerPoint. You begin to respect data when you can see business intelligence in a dynamic state. On Corda, the company behind Dashboard, you can track such things as campaign finance by state or zip code, and see up to date results. Or you could see gas prices or unemployment numbers charted out.

How does it work? The application pulls raw data from a variety of public sources, some of which is accurate up to the day.