# Quick Data Lessons: Survivorship Bias At Geckoboard, we’re on a mission to help people use data more simply and effectively. We’ve... - by Adele Simor - 7 September 2017 --- ## Common pitfalls to avoid when setting team goals - by Laura Tyson - 20 June 2017 --- ## How to get your team really engaged with your company goals and dashboards You’ve spent hours identifying the metrics that matter for your business or team and experimenting with data... - by Simon Whittick - 2 June 2017 --- ## 7 tech founders lift the lid on how they set goals We believe the best insights for scaling a company come from other founders who have or are currently... - by Laura Tyson - 1 June 2017 --- ## Vanity metrics on your dashboard: Are they always so bad? “Vanity metrics are dangerous.” - Eric Ries, The Lean Startup There is certainly a lot of truth to this... - by Adele Simor - 17 May 2017 --- ## Build better dashboards by iterating Great designs rarely come about by accident. Behind almost every successful product or piece of software, a large... - by Nick Smith - 5 May 2017 --- ## How to communicate goals to employees for alignment We’ve talked about setting priorities and choosing metrics that align with those priorities, but if you don’t communicate goals to employees then key metrics remain buried in the document where they were jotted down, and nothing changes because the wider team will be oblivious to them... - by Laura Tyson - 1 February 2017 --- ## How to choose the right metrics and set business goals - by Laura Tyson - 1 February 2017 --- ## 8 Ecommerce Metrics to Track for Black Friday and Through the Holidays It’s nearly the most wonderful time of the year! This means ecommerce businesses everywhere are revving up... - by Laura Tyson - 1 November 2016 --- ## New Feature: Visualizing key metrics from any source just got easier with our Datasets API Today we’re really excited to announce the launch of our brand new Datasets API, which makes it... - by Nick Smith - 18 October 2016 --- ## Location, Location, Location: Where to Put a TV Dashboard in Your Office You’ve identified a few select metrics to focus on for the quarter that will have a meaningful... - by Nick Smith - 11 October 2016 --- ## What’s the Best Way to Visualize Your Data? A Handy Flowchart to Help One of our engineers, Klara, was curious whether there was a set of guidelines to help people choose... - by Nick Smith - 9 August 2016 --- ## Share your goals, metrics, and data on a live dashboard Geckoboard is the easiest way to make key information visible for your team.