Introductions to myself and this project
Dashboards: exploratory vs explanatory
Some examples to consider
What data do we have?
What can we do with it?
How will we do this?
Advice, questions, concerns?
Poppy Riddle
PhD student of Information Science, Dalhousie University
Prior career in design, Masters in Library and Information Science
Builds off earlier work with Dalhousie researchers
Goal is to create a dashboard/hub for resources or data
Jan - Dec 2025
This are used to explore data sets or resources available. They usually include some way of visualizing to aid searching and making sense of the data.
This one starts to blur between exploratory and explanatory
Finally, a list seen many different ways…
These use data and visualizations to communicate information usually in a narrative. May also include links to online resources, etc.
There is no template - we should support multiple ways of finding resources
Asking questions
Listening
Trying things out, adapting, trying again
What’s a pain right now?
What are you always searching for?
What do you spend the most time doing?
Feel free to contact me at pnriddle@dal.ca
email list
review team
evaluation
Poppy Riddle
pnriddle@dal.ca
https://poppy-nicolette.github.io/LNS/
Literacy Nova Scotia Dashboard Project - Poppy Riddle - Feb 12 2025