I want to start building my Dashboard...

...and I don´t know anything about it.

Ok, this is your roadmap:

1. Read some books. Dona wong, "The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics". Stephen Few, "Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques". Know how to read portuguese? Buy my book: "Dashboards - Convey Efficiently Corporate Information".
2. Visit some good websites. Excel Charts; Sparklines for Excel;  Pictures of Numbers.
3. Start improving your Excel skills. Take a class with Chandoo. See Peltier Tech Blog.
4. Be creative. Get some ideas from HICHERT+PARTNER and Tableau.
5. Consolidate your ideas about Dashboard design.
6. Find a case. Open Excel. Start working on your Dashboard.
7. Not sure about what you´re doing? Send me your work. I will tell you the truth.

Author: Jorge Caldeira