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This dashboard was created to look at the distribution of federal contract awards in FY25 through a specific contracting medium. The first page is looking at all department contract awards and the second is looking at awards for one departmnt in particular and then broken out by component within that department
Breaking it from department to component is a strong structural choice.
Distribution shifts often hide at the sub-unit level.
Did you notice concentration risk in a few components driving most of the value?
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Clean structure. ERP dashboards get complex fast — especially with filtering, exports, and real-time metrics. Curious how you handled data fetching and state management at scale?
Most dashboards don’t have a visualization problem.
They have a KPI problem.
I’ve reviewed dozens of reporting systems recently and the pattern is consistent:
Metrics are defined differently across sheets
“Revenue” means one thing in finance and another in marketing
KPIs are tracked… but not tied to decisions
Dashboards look clean but don’t answer operational questions
When metric logic isn’t aligned, teams don’t have a data problem.
They have a decision problem.
That’s why I’ve started offering a structured KPI & Revenue Diagnostic Audit — focused on:
• Metric consistency
• Reporting logic
• Revenue driver alignment
• Decision-readiness
If you're building dashboards or scaling reporting systems, this layer matters more than design.
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Completely agree. Most dashboards optimize for visuals, not decision velocity. If KPIs aren’t standardized across teams, you’re basically scaling confusion. The real leverage is in metric governance before visualization.
District Aquarium: A Living Interface for Complex Systems
District Aquarium reimagines data dashboards as living ecosystems.
Instead of charts and static reports, complex systems are visualized as dynamic environments where data literally breathes. Each student is represented as a fish. Progress affects movement, brightness, and depth. System-wide trends influence water clarity and ecosystem health.
Built entirely in Figma Make, this project explores how metaphor-driven interfaces can transform how we interpret complex information. Originally inspired by education systems, the concept can extend beyond schools. Any organization, product, or team could visualize performance as a reactive ecosystem.
https://districtaquarium.figma.site/
This is a really interesting way to think about data visualization. Turning abstract metrics into a living ecosystem makes complex systems much easier to interpret.
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