There's a reason we don't just blend a meal into a uniform brown slop and call it dinner. The food might contain exactly the same ingredients and the same nutritional value, but nobody wants to eat it. Presentation matters - colour, arrangement, a bit of care, is what makes food appetising. It's what makes people reach for it. Data works the same way.
Hand someone a raw export or data tables of survey results and most people will close it within thirty seconds. It's not that they don't care about the data. It's that raw ingredients (raw data) don't resonate in their own right, they require preparation, knowledge, and effort before they become useful.
A well-built dashboard is not only visually appealing, it surfaces the data and insights in a way that helps non-subject-matter experts understand complex narratives. It takes the same underlying data and presents it in a format that's immediately legible. The right metrics, clearly visualised, arranged for the person who needs to use them.
Explori's latest update to dashboards and specifically our "all-in-one" widget creator streamlines the task of creating data visualisations that make data appetising.
It's typical that most event data sits in one place and gets retrieved infrequently. The team that runs the surveys knows where to look but everyone else, the teams who run the next event, the stakeholders who approved the budget often receive a summary of the data that doesn't surface what they need. Additionally, by the time insight reaches the people who need to act on it, it's often too late.
Each degree of separation a stakeholder has from the underlying data, the more difficult data backed decision making becomes. These stakeholders need direct access to the data to understand how the show performed, what needs a closer look and ultimately decide what needs changing or actions to take.
Full reports still have an important role: they are where detailed analysis lives. But not every stakeholder needs, or has time to interpret, the full report. A dashboard gives each person a focused view of the metrics that matter to them; whether that is overall event performance for leadership, exhibitor experience for sales teams, visitor satisfaction for marketing, or operational feedback for event delivery teams. Instead of asking everyone to work through the same full report, dashboards let you shape the data around the role, event profile, or decision at hand.
Dashboards and specifically our recent update to the way all users can create data visualisations for the data points that matter to them, addresses that problem directly. It gives you the tools to build a live view of your event performance, without requiring a developer, a data analyst, or a request to the Explori team.
Just like cooking, data visualisation is more of an art than a science. We have designed the way you create visualisations / widgets in dashboards with this firmly in mind and consolidated all the configuration options and visualisation settings in one place.
Select a metric and a chart appears immediately. Smart defaults mean it looks right from the start. Then you iterate; adjust how the data is aggregated, switch chart type, add another metric - all with a live preview that updates as you go.
Having everything together and in arms-reach allows a more iterative and creative approach to visualising data and is a calmer and faster experience.
More importantly, it opens up this process to non data specialists. You don't need a working knowledge data visualisation best practice or the underlying data to put together a clear and informative visualisation. You pick the metric that matters, and the tool handles the rest. Smart defaults take care of chart type and layout so you're not starting from a blank page.
Drag and drop widgets together directly in the dashboard to arrange the data in format that makes sense for the decisions you or others need to make. Create multiple dashboards for different use cases and each dashboard can be shared and accessed by anyone who needs it.
Widgets can pull from your live survey data, so the view updates as fieldwork progresses. You are not screenshotting a report and pasting it into a slide. You are giving stakeholders a live window into the data that exists.
The dashboard widget creator is not a standalone feature. It sits within a broader shift in how Explori surfaces intelligence: from data that lives in reports to data that lives where the decisions are made.
Automated reporting workflows, AI-driven open-text analysis, and now configurable dashboards are all oriented around the same objective: reducing the distance between event data and the moment someone needs to act on it.
The organisations that get the most out of their event intelligence programmes are the ones where data is a shared resource, not a specialist function. The widget creator is a practical step toward that.
The dashboard widget creator is available within the Explori platform as part of the same June 2026 release as AI open-text analysis. If you have questions about configuration or want a walkthrough of what is possible for your specific event programme, speak to your account manager.
Widgets pull from your live Explori survey data, including quantitative scores, open-text outputs, all alongside Explori's proprietary benchmarks and your company comparisons. The specific metrics available depend on your survey and account configuration.
No. The widget creator is designed for event professionals and stakeholders, not data specialists or developers.
Dashboard can be accessed by anyone with an Explori user account (normal access rules apply) and can be shared externally via PDF or PNG export. Sharing settings are configurable.
Widgets draw from live survey data, so the view updates as responses come in during fieldwork. This makes dashboards useful for tracking progress mid-survey, not just for post-event reporting.
The widget creator complements the existing reporting environment rather than replacing it. Full reports remain available for detailed analysis. Dashboards are designed for the stakeholders who need a fast, clear view of the metrics that matter most to them, without navigating the full reporting interface.
The feature is available to all users with edit rights. Your account manager can confirm availability for your account and help you get started with configuration.