Now, now.. comparing two very different-intent dashboards isn't cool. I know I'm late by 10 hours because people have already vented their feelings about the writeup.
You can partly agree that dashboards should be smart but not every dashboard _needs_ to be so. Creating smart dashboards requires you to actually identify the metrics and the requirements of the end-user.
When you generalize this, you end up having a dashboard that's Google Analytics. It's gigantic and by letting the user decide what labels he wishes to give to the numbers, it's actually way more smarter than the 'feeds.'
That's just my humble opinion but I sure don't feel comfortable about how other dashboards are treated in this piece.
You can partly agree that dashboards should be smart but not every dashboard _needs_ to be so. Creating smart dashboards requires you to actually identify the metrics and the requirements of the end-user.
When you generalize this, you end up having a dashboard that's Google Analytics. It's gigantic and by letting the user decide what labels he wishes to give to the numbers, it's actually way more smarter than the 'feeds.'
That's just my humble opinion but I sure don't feel comfortable about how other dashboards are treated in this piece.
And if someone's interested: http://thisiscsr.com/post/40088895750/dashboards-smartness