## Metadata - Author: [[skyler-johnson|Skyler Johnson]] - Full Title:: Unlocking Insights With High-Quality Dashboards at Scale - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Data catalog|Data catalog]], - URL:: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2024/08/unlocking-insights-with-high-quality-dashboards-at-scale/ - Finished date:: [[2024-09-13]] ## Highlights > In 2023, Spotifiers — mostly data scientists and the like — created more than 4,900 dashboards in Tableau or Looker Studio. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7nzxpdym0gp6jmkbjetcgs6)) > There is no centralized team at Spotify solely in charge of creating dashboards, but rather a lively and free market of dashboards — with the Analytics Platform team providing the scaffolding for this market — consisting of dashboard producers and dashboard consumers. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7nzy2mkx53eydz978928k7k)) > Ten percent of eligible dashboards at Spotify have achieved Golden status ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7nzzpxw6vqfw4t975re5pg6)) > we developed the Dashboard Portal. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7p00qaa75eag7e50vk94b5f)) > The primary features of Dashboar ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7p00v7shf20yhyktrz5r3ks)) > • **Search:** Users can search by title, description, and field names to find existing dashboards. No more “Do we have a dashboard about *X*?”! > • **Curation:** Dashboard authors can create curated collections of dashboards that become a go-to hub for their teams. Think “The Ads Dashboard Hub,” containing all the dashboards the team believe are important for their stakeholders to be aware of. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7p018cpc70c31whtn103cqt)) > **Trust and Quality:** The Dashboard Quality Framework labels are displayed as a badge on top of the dashboard thumbnails and on all dashboard pages, giving viewers a quick understanding of a dashboard’s quality, and more importantly, whether they can confidently trust it. We’re able to spotlight and draw attention to our Golden dashboards — our cream of the crop! In doing this, we’ve seen that users are more likely to view dashboards with a Golden label. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7p03vhnkn0985vn7pppg7ym)) > **Ubiquity:** While Tableau and Looker Studio each have their own discovery mechanisms, we’ve found that having a Dashboard Portal that surfaces content from multiple tools enables the user to not have to think about where the dashboard lives, but rather just find it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7p043a34kqqbhvx1gpnqbf5)) > **Enhanced Context:** Dashboards are embedded directly into the Portal and boosted with extra context: dashboard owner, last data refresh date, usage stats, and underlying SQL queries. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7p049f79nn1zmbmdy2x8wj6))