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Re:An IoT dashboard by nl on Thursday February 19, 2015 @05:34AM (#9073375)
Information that nobody needs

Wow.

Toilet flushes: a significant change in the frequency of toilet flushes may indicate the spread of communicable diseases such as gastroenteritis, or community health problems like food poisoning.

Apple-z: Clearly someone is having a lot of problems with whatever software they are using. There is a UX optimisation opportunity there.

Re:An IoT dashboard by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 19, 2015 @07:02AM (#9073603)
> Toilet flushes: a significant change in the frequency of toilet flushes may indicate the spread of communicable diseases such as gastroenteritis, or community health problems like food poisoning.

Well, you can't learn anything from just a number of today's flushes. With a proper chart graphing frequency over time and emphasizing changes, sure. But that's not what you get on the dashboard, at least without clicking. The lone number is useless.

> Apple-z: Clearly someone is having a lot of problems with whatever software they are using. There is a UX optimisation opportunity there.

Well, maybe. You can't tell from a lone number. Again, the graphs you can find when you click around could be useful, but not what you get by default.

Information is useless if it doesn't help you make decisions.

Re:An IoT dashboard by ytechie on Thursday February 19, 2015 @08:13AM (#9073806)
Hover over that tile and you get a (+). Click on that, and you can graph by day/month/year.
Re:An IoT dashboard by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 19, 2015 @08:31AM (#9073870)
I know. But some (most?) of this data should be shown by default if you want to be able to just glance at the dashboard and learn anything useful.
Re:An IoT dashboard by EvilDavid75 on Thursday February 19, 2015 @09:12AM (#9074031)
If there is ONE thing that we are really interested in knowing: what side of the table football is statistically the best. That's a REAL insight.
Re:An IoT dashboard by normloman on Thursday February 19, 2015 @10:05AM (#9074341)
I think you'd know if everyone in the office had food poisoning. Because everyone would be shitting their brains out.