Data modeling with dashboards: opportunities and challenges

Abstract

Visualizing data about social phenomena has been supported by many important institutions, such as OECD and the World Bank. Although there are several recent papers on data visualization in statistics education, studies on data modeling by interactive displays are rare, especially when dashboards are used. After an examination of data modeling and dashboards, this paper discusses the main opportunities and challenges of data modeling with dashboards, and gives possible reasons for these challenges. This contribution is based on a review of multidisciplinary literature. A summary of findings relevant to statistics education is given in the closing section.