Metadata
- Author: Skyler Johnson
- Full Title:: Unlocking Insights With High-Quality Dashboards at Scale
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: 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)
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)
Ten percent of eligible dashboards at Spotify have achieved Golden status (View Highlight)
we developed the Dashboard Portal. (View Highlight)
The primary features of Dashboar (View Highlight)
• 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)
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)
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)
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)