It is not a very scientific thing to say, but we have found that beautiful visualisations help adoption. Remember that the intended users of the dashboard are community managers and ethnographers.
Right now, for example, the global view is mostly useless. The timeline starts four years before the first post; there are two visualisations dedicated to the breakdown of Drupal nodes by content type, which is not relevant to the work. The forum network is unreadable. Before adding features, I recommend spending time rethinking the whole thing.
@guywiz 's netviz skills come in handy. There is a fundamental problem here: we are dealing with fairly large networks, with the forum network going up in the multiple thousands of nodes. How do we show them n the screen? Does it make sense to divide your home screen into panes, as opposed to allocating your real estate to one graph per page?
It is not a very scientific thing to say, but we have found that beautiful visualisations help adoption. Remember that the intended users of the dashboard are community managers and ethnographers.
For example EdgeSense: https://edgeryders.eu/sites/all/modules/edgesense/static/dashboard.html And I am sure you can do better than that.
Right now, for example, the global view is mostly useless. The timeline starts four years before the first post; there are two visualisations dedicated to the breakdown of Drupal nodes by content type, which is not relevant to the work. The forum network is unreadable. Before adding features, I recommend spending time rethinking the whole thing.
@guywiz 's netviz skills come in handy. There is a fundamental problem here: we are dealing with fairly large networks, with the forum network going up in the multiple thousands of nodes. How do we show them n the screen? Does it make sense to divide your home screen into panes, as opposed to allocating your real estate to one graph per page?