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Wasatch County staff hear roadmap to make dashboards fuel faster decisions
Summary
Utah Valley University consultant Andrew Molleff led a Wasatch County government workshop on dashboards and data visualization, urging departments to focus on the right data, automate collection where possible, and treat data preparation as the time-consuming step while dashboard creation is quick once data is ready.
Andrew Molleff, a data consultant affiliated with Utah Valley University, led a workshop for Wasatch County staff explaining how dashboards and visualizations can help departments save time and make better decisions. He framed visualizations as "something that tells a story" and stressed that the goal of collecting data is to predict future needs and support faster decisions.
Molleff walked participants through examples ranging from raw NOAA temperature files to county-level population graphs and a municipal utilities dashboard from Flagstaff, Ariz. He said large datasets he works with can span millions of rows and that effective displays "simplify the complex database" so patterns and trends are visible without manual sifting. He cautioned that some public datasets require unit…
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