KPI Weather

The default bands are 100 / 95 / 85 %: sunny at or above target, partly cloudy down to 95 %, rain down to 85 %, storm below. All three boundaries are adjustable and can never cross. When a percentage does not fit, optional Rain threshold and Storm threshold fields set absolute limits per KPI, for example a lead time that is fine up to 12 days and stormy beyond 15.

Lower-is-better works per visual or per row, so a mixed scorecard of revenue, scrap rate and lead time reads correctly in one visual. Zero targets for zero-harm KPIs such as injuries or spills are met exactly or not at all: sunny at zero, storm above.

Yes. Bind one measure to the Comparison well, such as prior year, and every KPI shows its change against it, labelled with the field's own name: "vs Prior year +4.2%" on tiles and the hero, in the strip, as a column in the Boardroom table and in the tooltip, which says better or worse according to the KPI's direction. The weather itself stays actual vs target; a comparison is context, never a second judgement.

A second and third comparison measure, for prior year, forecast and group average side by side, are part of Premium Outlook.

Premium Outlook draws the weather for the next 1 to 6 periods from an ordinary least-squares line through your last periods, the same simple trend a CFO can check with FORECAST.LINEAR in Excel. Each future period is judged against its own budget when the data has one; otherwise the latest target is carried forward and the tooltip says so. Every tooltip names the method and the number of periods, and every outlook on the canvas sits under an "Outlook (trend)" label.

The chance of meeting target comes from the prediction interval of that line, shown as "70 %" or "7 in 10" the way a forecaster gives the chance of rain. It is withheld when the history is too short or has no scatter, and KPIs that never went below zero are never forecast below zero. The statistics are validated against reference values in automated tests.

Auto picks a hero for one KPI and a grid for several. The hero shows one big forecast and can rotate through KPIs on a wall screen, with a visible pause button. The grid gives one tile per KPI, small multiples of KPI cards, each with its own glyph, value, vs target, trend and sparkline, under optional Group headers. The forecast strip lays out one row per KPI like a weather app's weekly forecast. Boardroom mode shows the same data as a plain status table with status shape, word, actual, target, variance and trend, for the meeting where weather icons would feel out of place.

Every layout fits itself to the size of the visual. With Layout > Tile columns at 0 (auto), the grid puts as many tiles in a row as the width allows and spreads them evenly over the rows, and tiles grow taller to use the available height. With Values > Value size at 0 (auto), the big number is sized to fit its tile or the hero. Forecast strip and Boardroom rows grow with the height too, and when the content needs a scrollbar the visual lays itself out again inside the narrower space.

Four themes have their own personality: SmartVisuals morning sky, Dark night broadcast, Clean newspaper weather page and Slate control room. Weather art comes in four styles, and the labels can be weather words, business words or your own.