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In context
- Topic: Datos y Analítica — Gobierno del dato, calidad, analítica y productos de datos.
- Source: Towards Data Science
- Published: 26/08/2026
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Why it matters
A beautiful dashboard can hide a bad number for months. That is why I distrust stories about visualisation that say nothing about governance: the expensive part is not displaying the number, it is guaranteeing the number means the same thing on Tuesday as on Thursday.
When I assess a data initiative, the first question is which concrete decision gets made with this and who makes it. If the answer is that it provides visibility, I already know the dashboard will be abandoned within a year. Visibility is not an objective, it is a side effect.
What usually goes wrong
What I see fail most is dashboard maintenance. It gets built carefully, used for three months, and then a business rule changes that nobody told the data team about. The number still comes out, it no longer means the same thing, and decisions keep being made on data that became false.
What to watch
- When the number arrives relative to when the decision is taken, which is what defines its usefulness.
- Who answers for the quality of the indicator when somebody challenges it in a committee.
- Which concrete decision changes because of this and who makes it: without that, it is one more dashboard.
How I read this entry
What I would ask for is a business owner for each critical indicator, by name. Not an area: a person. Data without an owner degrades on its own, and when somebody asks why the number changed, there is nobody to ask.
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Living through this in your own team?
Open the chat and tell me how you're handling it. I'm interested in comparing notes.
