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Insights on Dashboard Design
Few style guides go deep on dashboards, but the Baltimore City Data Fellows documentation includes a focused dashboard section.
It highlights practical concepts like grid-based layout, hierarchy, and reading patterns. It also points to deeper companion documentation, indicating a layered guidance model.
One useful reminder from this section is that reading flow assumptions vary by culture, so layout guidance should avoid treating a single pattern as universal.
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