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Betsy Page Sigman is a distinguished professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has taught courses in statistics, project management, databases, and electronic commerce for the last 16 years, and has been recognized with awards for teaching and service. She has also worked at George Mason University in the past. Her recent publications include a Harvard Business case study and a Harvard Business review article. Additionally, she is a frequent media commentator on technological issues and big data.
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Somesh Soni is a Splunk Consultant with over 11 years of IT experience. He has bachelor degree in Computer Science (Hons.) and has been a interested in exploring and learning new technologies throughout his whole life. He has extensive experience in Consulting, Architecture, Administration and Development in Splunk. He's proficient in various programming languages and tools including C#.NET/VB.NET, SSIS, and SQL Server etc. Somesh is currently working as a Splunk Master with Randstad Technologies. His activities are focused on Consulting, Implementation, Admin, Architecture and support related activities for Splunk. He started his career with the one of the Top 3 Indian IT giant He has executed projects for major fortune 500 companies like Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Capital Group etc. He has performed in various capacities of Technical Architect, Technical Lead, Onsite Coordinator, Technology Analyst etc. Somesh has been a great contributor in the Splunk Community work and has consistently been on the top of the list. He is a member of Splunk Trust 2015-16 and overall one of the topmost contributor to Splunk Answers community. Acknowledgement: I would like to thank my family and colleagues who have always encouraged and supported me to follow my dreams, my friends who put up with all my crazy antics while I went on a Splunk exploratory Journey and listened with patience on all the tips and tricks of Splunk which I shared with them. Last but not the least I would like to express my gratitude to the entire team of Packt Publishing Ltd for giving me this opportunity.
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Erickson Delgado is an enterprise architect who loves to mine and analyze data. He began using Splunk in version 4.0 and has pioneered the use of the application in his current work. In the earlier parts of his career, he worked with start-up companies in the Philippines to help build their open source infrastructure. He then worked in the cruise industry as a shipboard IT manager, and he loved it. From there, he was recruited to work at the company's headquarters as a software engineer.
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Creating effective dashboards


It is easy to use Splunk to develop an attractive dashboard with multiple panels. However, this is not usually the best way to present your information. This is because a dashboard with multiple panels generally requires scrolling down the page, which can take the viewer's eyes away from crucial information. An effective dashboard should generally meet the following conditions:

  • Single page: The dashboard fits on a single page with no scrolling required

  • Multiple data points displayed: Charts and visualizations should display a number of data points

  • Crucial information highlighted: The dashboard points out the most important information, using appropriate titles, labels, legends, and markers

  • Created with the user in mind: Data is summarized in a way that is meaningful to the viewer

  • Loads quickly: The dashboard loads in a few seconds

  • Avoid redundancy: The display does not repeat information in multiple places

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Betsy Page Sigman

Betsy Page Sigman is a distinguished professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has taught courses in statistics, project management, databases, and electronic commerce for the last 16 years, and has been recognized with awards for teaching and service. She has also worked at George Mason University in the past. Her recent publications include a Harvard Business case study and a Harvard Business review article. Additionally, she is a frequent media commentator on technological issues and big data.
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Somesh Soni

Somesh Soni is a Splunk Consultant with over 11 years of IT experience. He has bachelor degree in Computer Science (Hons.) and has been a interested in exploring and learning new technologies throughout his whole life. He has extensive experience in Consulting, Architecture, Administration and Development in Splunk. He's proficient in various programming languages and tools including C#.NET/VB.NET, SSIS, and SQL Server etc. Somesh is currently working as a Splunk Master with Randstad Technologies. His activities are focused on Consulting, Implementation, Admin, Architecture and support related activities for Splunk. He started his career with the one of the Top 3 Indian IT giant He has executed projects for major fortune 500 companies like Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Capital Group etc. He has performed in various capacities of Technical Architect, Technical Lead, Onsite Coordinator, Technology Analyst etc. Somesh has been a great contributor in the Splunk Community work and has consistently been on the top of the list. He is a member of Splunk Trust 2015-16 and overall one of the topmost contributor to Splunk Answers community. Acknowledgement: I would like to thank my family and colleagues who have always encouraged and supported me to follow my dreams, my friends who put up with all my crazy antics while I went on a Splunk exploratory Journey and listened with patience on all the tips and tricks of Splunk which I shared with them. Last but not the least I would like to express my gratitude to the entire team of Packt Publishing Ltd for giving me this opportunity.
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Erickson Delgado

Erickson Delgado is an enterprise architect who loves to mine and analyze data. He began using Splunk in version 4.0 and has pioneered the use of the application in his current work. In the earlier parts of his career, he worked with start-up companies in the Philippines to help build their open source infrastructure. He then worked in the cruise industry as a shipboard IT manager, and he loved it. From there, he was recruited to work at the company's headquarters as a software engineer.
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