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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Creating a high information visibility dashboard

In this second example, we'll create a dashboard intended to provide information in a much higher level of view; that is, that of a display intended to be scanned rapidly in order for us to get a big-picture viewpoint. Typically, you'd see this type of dashboard in a kiosk-type context, such as in an operations center or a public informational display.

We'll be conveying a set of data that's similar to what we had in the previous section, but we'll only have a limited slice of each data series, typically the most current readings. We'll be making extensive use of the Stat panel as opposed to the Graph panel, as we did previously. The idea we're trying to convey is that the dashboard will be displayed in a context that makes details hard to read from a distance.

Designing the dashboard

What we want to do is create and arrange a set of panels that will fit on a single page...

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Published in: Jun 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838826581

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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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