Real-time data motivates people to perform

There has been a lot of discussion lately about whether visualizing data can actually be used to motivate people successfully. I often tell people how essential it is to display real-time data to employees because it just makes a lot of sense. Additionally, my clients also tell me that having a data dashboard in the office really helps them manage their teams. As a business owner, I was never subjected to having my own performance captured in real time, and I always wanted to know what this was like. Unwittingly, I walked right into my own experiment with my personal fitness regime.