Dashboard Guide: APIs Application Programming Interface (APIs) allow you to pull in data and create a dynamic, data-driven dashboard that updates in real-time. Let’s assume we’re working with a business case where we need to display the latest stock market information for a specific company. We’ll use a popular stock market API called Alpha Vantage […]
Dashboard Guide: Alerts Alerts are a powerful feature that can help you monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and other important metrics in real time, ensuring you stay on top of your business performance. Imagine you are a regional sales manager for a retail company. You are responsible for monitoring the sales performance of various stores […]
Dashboard Guide: Dynamic Metrics Dynamic metrics can make your dashboards more engaging, interactive, and responsive to user input. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to add dynamic metrics to your dashboards using any dashboarding tool. Let’s dive in! Step 1: Identify the Dynamic Metrics Elements First, determine which metrics on your dashboard […]
Dashboard Guide: Dynamic Text Dynamic text can make your dashboards more engaging, interactive, and responsive to user input. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to add dynamic titles and other text elements to your dashboards using any dashboarding tool. Let’s get started! Step 1: Identify the Dynamic Text Elements First, you’ll want […]
Dashboard Guide: Blending Data Business Case: Sales Performance Dashboard Imagine you are working with a retail company, and they would like to create a sales performance dashboard. They have two primary datasets: one for sales transactions and another for customer information. We will blend these datasets to analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) like revenue, average […]
Dashboard Guide: Data Modeling For this guide, we’ll use a fictional online store’s sales data to create a dashboard for analyzing product performance. Step 1: Understand your business case and objectives Our business case is to analyze product performance, so our objectives will be: Identify top-selling products Analyze sales trends over time Determine the effectiveness […]
Cleaning Data for Dashboards Business Case: Sales Performance Dashboard Imagine you are a sales manager at a retail company. You’ve received a dataset containing sales data from various stores and would like to create a dashboard to monitor and analyze the sales performance of each store. However, before you can build the dashboard, you need […]
Customizing Dashboards to Suit Different Audiences and Purposes Case Study: Sales Performance Dashboard for a Retail Company Let’s imagine we need to create a sales performance dashboard for a retail company with three different audiences: the sales team, the management team, and the company’s executives. Step 1: Identify the Needs of Each Audience The first […]
Designing the Layout for Your Dashboard: A Step-by-Step Tutorial Step 1: Sketch your layout ideas Before diving into the actual design, creating a rough sketch of your ideas is essential. This will help you visualize how the dashboard will look and enable you to organize the elements logically. Use pen and paper or a digital […]
When creating a dashboard, choosing the right data sources is essential to ensure you’re providing accurate and relevant information to your audience. Let’s dive into a business case to understand the process better. In our business case, we are building a sales dashboard for a retail company. Our primary goal is to monitor sales performance, […]
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