Designing Effective Dashboards
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Introduction to Dashboard Design
Introduction to Dashboard Design
There are numerous benefits to understanding how you can design a Power BI dashboard effectively. This course introduces these benefits and the case study for this course.
Arranging the Information
Arranging the Information
It's important that any dashboard has an appropriate structure and layout. In this lesson, we'll explain why this is the case, and show you the best way to arrange your dashboards.
Using Space and Size Efficiently
Using Space and Size Efficiently
A dashboard has limited space, so you need to know how to use that space effectively. This lesson teaches you how to do this using four key principles: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity.
Selecting the Right Charts
Selecting the Right Charts
Once you know how to organize a dashboard, you need to know what visualizations to put on it. This lesson teaches you which visualizations are most appropriate for a range of common situations.
Determining the Dashboard Components
Determining the Dashboard Components
Having learned about the important principles of dashboard design, this lesson applies these principles to our case study. We identify the key metrics of interest to our company, and determine the narrative flow for our dashboard.
Creating KPIs
Creating KPIs
In this lesson, we start to create the visualizations for our dashboard in Power BI, by creating cards for the KPIs that will go at the top of the dashboard.
Creating Initial Visualizations
Creating Initial Visualizations
The first chart on our dashboard is a line chart detailing Monthly Recurring Revenue and subscribers over time. Learn how to create this chart in this lesson.
Creating Further Visualizations
Creating Further Visualizations
In this lesson, we finish creating the visualizations for our dashboard, including a bar chart of MRR by location, and a relatively elaborate map showing revenue by state.
Sketching the Dashboard
Sketching the Dashboard
Before we create the dashboard in Power BI, it's a good idea to create a sketch of it externally first. We'll learn how to do this in this lesson
Creating the Dashboard
Creating the Dashboard
Once we know how our dashboard should look, we can start creating it in Power BI. In this lesson, we create a title header for the dashboard, then create some placeholder shapes for all the visualizations.
Finishing the Dashboard
Finishing the Dashboard
In this lesson, we complete our dashboard by adding all the visualizations we've created in previous lessons into the locations identified in the dashboard sketch.
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