IISE 2021 - Dashboard Guidelines

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Interactive Excel

Dashboard
Why Learn Dashboard?
Dashboard skills are in demand and will get you noticed.

Well, I've presented my first Dashboard report


(covering 45 sites, five regions and a summary) to the
GM, who has in turn presented it to the Board. Your
course was absolutely spot on and covered exactly
what I needed to know. So, thanks a bunch!

The GM was so impressed that I took the opportunity


and asked him to reimburse me for the cost of the
Testimony
course and he agreed.
from the
Professional
World
I am so excited to use your advice & tools to build the
dashboard for my project which is due in the next 2
weeks.

My dashboard will be unbeatable if I compare it with


the old style dashboards that my co-workers built for
my workplace.
They are not interactive at all, only a button to filter
the selections.
What Will You Learn?
● What is a dashboard?

● Dashboard dirty secret

● Planning your dashboard so you nail it first time

● Good Dashboard Design so it’s easy to interpret

● Excel skills required to build Dashboards

● How to Build your own interactive Excel Dashboards?


Webinar Format
● Approx. 1 hour - recorded for download later

● How to use Excel to build dashboards

● Taught in Excel 2010 but compatible with Excel 2007 and 2013

● Excel file containing the completed dashboard

● Download this presentation with links to more resources

● Q&A below video


What is a Dashboard?

“A dashboard is a visual display of


the most important information
needed to achieve one or more
………..
objectives; consolidated and
……... arranged on a single screen so
the information can be
monitored at a glance."

Dashboard -Stephen Few


Dashboard Dirty Secret

#1 #2

It’s not black magic! You may already have


the Excel skills.

#3 #4

Dashboards are just a


compilation of data, No VBA required
analysis and charts
Planning
Research your requirements:

- Dashboard Purpose

- Audience

- KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators)

- Time Period

- Data Source

- Frequency and Delivery


Mock-up
Excel Skills

1 Charting

Excel Tables
2
3 Formulas

PivotTables
4
5 Formatting

Not VBA
6
Design
Design - Less is More
Design - Which Chart
Comparing Categories
Values Over Time
Distribution
Correlation
Chart Recipe eBook
Data Sources

1 3 5
SQL
Server

2 4 WWW… .COM
Tabular Format

Tabular Format Tutorial


Format as an Excel Table

Excel Table Tutorial


More Resources

● Formula Tutorials
○ GETPIVOTDATA Function
○ OFFSET Function

● PivotTable Tutorials

● Excel Tables

● Excel Charts

● Online Excel Dashboard Course

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