Dashboards

Dashboard allows the insight into particular widgets presenting data from topics. Dashboards are created automatically while forming a new topic, their arrangement and contents can be freely modified.

New Dashboard

There are two ways of creating a new dashboard.
If you don’t have any open dashboards, you can create a new one from the dashboard level list. In this case, click the '+CREATE' button.

You will be redirected to 'Create new dashboard' view.

In order to create new dashboard you have to fill out following fields:

1. Default topic – clicking this panel expands a list of topics set on the account. The user chooses a topic which is going to be presented on the dashboard.
2. New dashboard name.
3. Decide on Dashboard layout. There are four kinds of dashboards available, the user has the option of editing the widgets afterwards:
   a) Simple dashboard allows you to check your content summary, mentions in time, top keywords, sentiment and sources. It is the basic dashboard, suitble for begginers. This dashboard consist of following widgets: Mentions in time, Content summary, Sentiment in time, Sentiment, Conversation prism, Keywords cloud, Mentions change by source, Sources pie chart, All statements, Top domains, Gender distribution in time, Gender analysis
   b) Advanced - on advanced dashboard you can easily display all basic widgets, as well as reach data and gender analysis. Available widgets: all of graphs available in Simple Dashboard as well as 4 additional: Views dynamics, Range summary, Opinion leaders, Most popular comments.
   c) Comparison - using this predefined dashboard allows to easily compare between two or more topics. To use thia dashboard, you must have at least two topics defined.
   d) Blank – is where you set all the widgets manually. No predefined widgets added.
4. New Settings are confirmed by the “Create” button.

At this level you should also choose the topic to base the dashboard on. To do so, enter the name of your topics in 'Default topic' field. Than you should name your dashboard. Enter the name in the field on the left.

Widgets and custom dashboards

Any predefined dashboard can be easily customized with widgets of your choice. You can also use “Blank” dashboard and add your own widgets. To add widgets click “CUSTOMIZE” button in the upper corner of the dashboards screen.

1. Dashboard list – clicking on the icon allows to expand the list of available dashboards or search a particular dashboard by typing its name.
2. New dashboard – function that allows to create a new dashboard.
3. Refreshing data displayed on a website.
4. Adjusting the layout of widgets to screen resolution.
5. Data filters displayed on widgets according to topics, dates, domain groups, sentiment, author’s gender, mention types, granulation, tags, statement’s language. Particular filters are presented in the Mentions section.
6. Adjust – clicking on this icon displays a dashboard editing panel where you can freely add or delete widgets displayed on the dashboard.

In SentiOne we have 8 categories of widgets you can add to your dashboard. Their availability depends on the chosen plan.

General - including Share of voice, Mentions in time, Content summary, Opinion leaders and Hour histogram widgets
Results - including Keyword cloud, all Statements list, Most popular mentions, Social stream, Geotagged mentions widgets
Sources - including Share of sources, Share of sources in time and most popular domains widgets
Sentiment - including Sentiment, Sentiment in time and Sentiment Prism widgets
Gender - including Share of gender and Gender distribution in time widgets
Tagged content - including Share of tagged content and Share of tagged content in time widgets
Reach - including Share of impressions, Share of impressions in time and Reach summary
Trends - including Most popular words cloud, Most popular hashtag cloud and Most popular posts list

To add widgets to your dashboard, click the one from the menu and it will automatically appear at the bottom of your dashboard:

Customizing widgets

Any widget you add to your dashboard can be customized. To do so, click 'Edit settings' icon on the top-right corner of it.

After you do that, a mentions list will appear accompanied with the filters section you already know from the dashboard customization.

In SentiOne there is a separate screen where you can browse and read your mentions. You can access it, click on 'Mentions' icon on the left menu. After you do that, a mentions list will appear accompanied with the filters section, you know from dashboard customization.