Dashboard Structure & Actionability Questions
Learn to design dashboards that support decision-making. Organize metrics by user role: executives care about North Star and business outcomes; team leads care about specific channel or feature metrics. Include trends, comparisons, and targets. Practice explaining the purpose of each dashboard tier and how it enables specific decisions.
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Your growth org runs hundreds of experiments and posts results to a shared dashboard. Explain how multiple comparisons increase the false-positive rate and propose dashboard-level mitigations and statistical corrections such as Bonferroni or Benjamini-Hochberg. Suggest UI patterns and filters to avoid misinterpretation by non-statistical stakeholders.
MediumTechnical
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Compare three cohort visualization methods—retention curve, cohort heatmap, and LTV curve—when communicating retention to executives versus analysts. For each visualization describe the primary insight, strengths and weaknesses, and the best-fit use case.
MediumTechnical
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Using PostgreSQL, write a query to produce weekly retention cohorts. Given table events(user_id, event_name, occurred_at TIMESTAMP), compute for each cohort week (the week of the user's first event truncated to week starting Monday UTC) the percent of users active in weeks 0 through 8 after cohort. Output columns: cohort_week, week_number, users_in_cohort, retained_users, retention_rate. Explain approach and any performance considerations.
EasyTechnical
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When building an executive dashboard meant to show high-level trends versus targets, which visualization types and layout patterns work best? Provide guidance on chart types (for example: KPI tiles, sparklines, bullet charts, small-multiples), aggregation levels, recommended use of color to indicate status, and how to present variance from target and trend direction in a single glance.
MediumSystem Design
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You are asked to design a three-tiered dashboard system for an e-commerce business that processes 20k daily transactions. For each tier—Executives (north-star summary), Managers (funnel and cohort trends), Analysts (drilldowns and event-level views)—specify required panels, refresh cadence, interactivity (filters, drilldowns), and example KPIs. Explain how each tier hands off to the next for investigation.
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