Robbie Allen: Most dashboards eventually become useless as users establish baselines
Robbie Allen · Robbie Allen, Automated insights // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Jun 26, 2014 · at 7:25
Robbie Allen, founder and CEO of Automated Insights, outlines what he calls the baseline effect in corporate dashboards during a talk on natural language generation.
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“Eventually most dashboards become useless Because people are already used to seeing it, it's giving them the same information that mostly that they saw last month or last week, and so they stopped looking at it.”
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