How to Make a Dashboard on a TV
The TV hanging in our office has been sitting empty for a long time, and that is not a good use of it. So I recently started planning to show some important numbers on it, such as conversion rate, traffic, and live visitors. I originally thought a dashboard would be a simple request: two or three days of backend work to organize the data, then D3.js on the front end to draw the charts. Or I could make it even simpler and use custom reports in Google Analytics. But once I started researching, I found the problem was not so simple. Let me walk you through it. ...