[kfor]

Lots of great suggestions here, but one I haven't seen is providing deep links. Let users share the exact state of their dashboard with others, ideally without requiring some convoluted system of logging in and sharing things. We implemented it by allowing a json config in the url, then providing a button to copy a shortened URL containing the whole config.

Original creator of (the now woefully dated-looking) GBD Compare [https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/] here, where we found this super useful since we had so many controls that it could take a lot of clicking (and knowledge of the UI) to recreate a graph someone else was looking at. It really helped with reach, as folks could email/tweet their specific view then others could use that as a starting point to dive in without starting from scratch or having to create an account.

[grvdrm]

+10, yes, don't make people recreate all the filtering for something you're putting in their hands.

[IanCal]

To add to this, there are two kinds of sharing.

Sharing the parameters, filters, etc.

Sharing the results.

They can both be very important.

[vosper]

Yeah, deep links are essential. Datadog's really good at this. They also have a nice preview generator so that when you drop that link into Slack it generates a preview image of the dashboard with all of the filters applied. It's great.