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Creating KPI Dashboards Using Excel Part 3

This document summarizes a lesson on creating advanced KPI dashboards in Excel. The instructor begins by showing a completed dashboard with sorting, highlighting, and multiple charts. They explain that in this final lesson, they will construct a similar dashboard to allow sorting by column, highlighting top/bottom percentiles, comparing KPIs, and showing KPI distributions. Rather than explaining each step, the instructor will demonstrate techniques like using conditional formatting to display icons indicating percentiles. They proceed to showcase calculating percentiles and conditionally displaying green/red icons to highlight top/bottom values without clutter. The goal is to teach skills for synthesizing complex dashboards without explaining minor details.

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Creating KPI Dashboards Using Excel Part 3

This document summarizes a lesson on creating advanced KPI dashboards in Excel. The instructor begins by showing a completed dashboard with sorting, highlighting, and multiple charts. They explain that in this final lesson, they will construct a similar dashboard to allow sorting by column, highlighting top/bottom percentiles, comparing KPIs, and showing KPI distributions. Rather than explaining each step, the instructor will demonstrate techniques like using conditional formatting to display icons indicating percentiles. They proceed to showcase calculating percentiles and conditionally displaying green/red icons to highlight top/bottom values without clutter. The goal is to teach skills for synthesizing complex dashboards without explaining minor details.

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CreatingKPID
DashboardsusingExcelP
Part3

[00:00:000minutes]
Hieveryyone,welcom
mebacktoE
ExcelSchool .Inthelast KPIdashboa
ardlesson,w
wealmostco
ompleted
making the KPIdash
hboard scroll list along with one ch
hart and I to
old you thatt the remain
ning four
charts w
would be yo
our homewo
ork. So, I've made those
e and saved
d the file assourkpidashboard
step3.withall charts and this is how it caame out. It'ss a pretty siimple chart.. You can se
elect any
particulaarKPIanditt'llshowthe KPIssorted alongwithtthechartforrthedisplayyedten.Asyyouscroll
down,youcanseetheKPIscorre
espondingtoothoseprod
ducts.Youcanrestoreto theoriginalorderby
selectinggthefirstradiobutton.T
Thisisapretttysimplethingandwe'vveaddedtheeseadditiona
alcharts.

[00:00:553minutes]
In this lesson which
h is the final part of ourr KPIdashbo
oard tutorials, we will trry to get as close as
possibleetothisoutccomeheresothatwehaavesortingccapability,hiighlighttheccolumnonw
whichwe
sorted,h
highlighttheevaluesthataremorethhanthe90th
hpercentilea
andlessthannthe10thpercentile
and also
o add a charrt to comparre one KPI w
with anotherr, for examp
ple KPI1 withh KPI2 and show
s
the
distributtion and higghlight the ten
t that we have displaayed. We'll also add ch arts so thatt we can
understaandthedisttributionofttheKPIsamoongthe100
0products.T
Thisisgoing tobeaninteresting
lesson b
because we will be learn
ning a lot of new topics and seeing how to syntthesize and combine
thingsto
oachievetheeresults.

[00:01:449minutes]
Unliketheprevious twolessonsI'mnotgoinngtoexplain
neverymino
ordetail.Insttead,Iwilljustshow
youhow
wIhaveconstructedthin
ngsandgiveeyousomeh
highlevelde
etailsbecausse,now,Iexxpectyou
tocatchupandconsstructthesechartsallbyyyourself.So
o,let'sgetsta
arted.

[00:02:111minutes]
Thisissstep3withaallthechartss.Letmeoppenstep4w
whichisthe firstthing. I nordertosshowthe
percentiileindicatorss,Iwantedtouseanexttracolumnherewherew
wewouldshoowsomekindoficon
oranind
dicator.Foreexample,iftthisvalueweeretobethe
ebottom10tthpercentileeforKPI1,we'dshow
somethiinglikethis andifitwerretobethe top90thpe
ercentileorm
more,we'd showsometthinglike
thisassmallvisualindicatorwhichwouldshhowthatthissisaspecial rowandso payattentio
ontothis
here.Ho
owwouldweedothat?T
Therearesevveralwaysto
odoit.Ifyouexaminetthecharttha
atRobert
hasconsstructed,hehasusedafformulaalonngwiththese
esymbolstthetrianglessymbolwithplusand
thetrian
nglesymbol withminus andhehadappliedcon
nditionalform
mattingonttopsothatw
wecould
showthemingreenorredcolorr.ThisisoneecleverwayofdoingitbutsinceweaareusingExcel2007,
therearrealotofneewfeaturesa
available,so whydon'tw
wemakeuseofthem?Soo,letmefigu
ureouta
differentwaytodoiit.

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[00:03:229minutes]
Ihaveusedconditio
onalformattingsothatw
wecanshowanicon.Ifyouremembeer,iconsarepossible
inExcel 2007.So,wewanttosh
howagreen iconwheneveritismorrethanthe990thpercenttileanda
redicon
nwhenever itislessthanthe10thppercentile.A
And,Idon'tw
wanttoshoowthemiddleamber
icon beccause that'll clutter the dashboard as everythin
ng will have an icon. In stead, we ju
ust show
greenorrredandleaavetherema
ainingthingsswhite.How
wdoweachie
evethat?Lettmedoade
emovery
quicklyh
here.Let'ssaaythatwehavesomevaalues;letme
ecopythesevaluesandppastethema
asvalues
here.No
ow,ifIgoto
oconditionalformatting >IconSetsaandselectth
his,Excelwil lautomatica
allyapply
these iccons to theese values based
b
on thhe numbers. We just select
s
thesee, go to Conditional
Formattting > Managge Rules and
d if you loo k at the rule
e, it is prettty clear. It saays that if the value
happensstobemoreethanthe67
7thpercentille,itwillbegreen.Ifitisslessthanthhe33rdperccentile,it
willberred.Wecouldveryquickklytweakthissto90and1
10andwe've
eprettymucchgotthere
esultthat
wearellookingforw
whichistoshowredfor the10thpe
ercentileand
dbelowvaluuesandgreenforthe
valuesth
hataremoreethanthe90
0thpercentille.

[00:05:119minutes]
Theproblemisthat theyellowiconsaredis playedandttherewillbeatleast80yyellowvalue
esaswell
andthatt'snotcorrecctbecausethey'llbeannnoyingandw
willdemandtthesameam
mountofatte
ention.In
adashbo
oardlikethiss,itwouldlo
ooktooclutteeredifyousshowsoman
nyyellowthinngs.So,wejustwant
tohighliightthevalu
uesbelow10
0andabove 90asitisnotinterestin
ngforthevaaluesinbetw
weenand
sothereeisnoneedfforustohighlight.Howddoweattackkthatproble
em?Itispretttysimple.In
nsteadof
doing alll this, the fiirst step would be to caalculate the percentile. But,
B to keepp things simp
ple, I am
goingto
oshowyouaatechnique thatIoften use.InacelllIwouldputavalueof 2ifIwantttohavea
greeniconandavaluelike0ifIwanttohavvearedicon.Therewilla
alotofcells withavalue
eof1but
wedon'twanttosh
howanythinggforthem.SSo,insteado
ofputting1,Iwillleavetthemempty.IfIhave
arange ofcellslike thiswithsom
me0'sandssome2's,we
e'llshowgreenforthe2 'sandredfo
orthe0's
andnothingfortheemptycellss.We'llgotootheIconSetsandapplythemanddthengoto Manage
Rulesan
ndedittherrule.Here,in
nsteadofpeercent,I wan
nttosetittonumberbbecausenum
mbersare
whatweeareusing[2
2and0].And,IwanttottellExceltoshowmethegreeniconnwhenevertthevalue
isgreateerthanoreq
qualto2and
dIwanttottellExcelto showmetherediconw
whenthevalueisless
thanor equalto0. Sincethere arenovalueesbetween 2and0,so foralltheceellsforwhicchyellow
shouldb
bedisplayed,nothingwillbeshown becausethe
ereisnovalu
uethatmeettsthatcriterion.And,
IamjusstgoingtoteellExceltoju
ustshowtheeicononlyaandnotthevalues.Thatt'sit;noww
wehavea
buncho
ofgreenandrediconsandnothingel se.

[00:07:229minutes]
Anotherrsmalltricktthatweofte
enuseistha ttheiconsizeisdepend
dentonthe cellfontsize
e.Itis11
pointsh
hereandsoifImakeit9
9pointsthenntheiconwiillbenicean
ndsmall.Icaanalsoalign ittothe
middleo
ofthecell.Th
hisisthetecchniquethat wearegoingtouse.Iwon'tgointotthedetails.IInstead,I
amgoin
ngtoshowyouhowIconstructedit..Ihopethattyoucanverryquicklyexxtractthepe
ercentiles
forthisd
data.Allyou
uneedtodoislookupthhepercentile
erankofthe
evalueinall theKPIsherre.That's
theentirelistofKPIssoutofwhicchweneedttofindtheraankofthatKPI.Thatwouuldbe0butiifIadjust
the deciimal points to a precisio
on of 2 digitts, I can see
e that it is 0.16
0
meaninng that it is the 16th
percentiile.So,itisvveryeasyforustocalcuulatetheperrcentilesand
dIamnotgooingtogoin
ntothose

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details. Instead,Iwilljustopen Step2.I'llssavethis.Th


hisishowweendedup..Ihaveaddedafew
morebeellsandwhisstlesbutesse
entiallywhattwedidisth
hisifwego theCalculattionstab,we
ecansee
thatwe havecalculaatedthepercentilesforaallthese5KPIsforthedisplayed10vvaluesandthenIam
showingg0or2depeendingonthelogic.The logicispretttystraightforward;Iam checkingiftthevalue
ismore thanthe90
0thpercentileandifsotthenshow2
2andifitlesssthanthe 10thpercen
ntilethen
show0 orelsejustlleaveitemp
pty.That'shoowweendedupwithth
hesethings.YYou'llseethatIhave
appliedconditionalfformattingo
ontopofthatt.Thisishow
witlooks.

[00:09:221minutes]
The dashboard is slowly gettingg busy; ther e are a lot of
o things going on. We have a charrt, target
figures, icons,sortin
ngetc.So,I'vveaddedonneadditionalfeaturetoiitwhichis'sshowtargetss'.IfIun
checkth
histhenthettargetmarke
erswillbegoone.ItsnotaalwaysnecesssaryforusttocompareK
KPIswith
targets sso I've madee it optional so that we can get rid of some clu
utter from thhe dashboarrd. It is a
prettysiimplefeaturre.Again,Idon'tthinkthhatIneedto
oexplainthattoyoubeccauseIhaveshownit
inthedyynamiccharrtinglessona
andinteract ivecharting lessonintheExcelSchooolportion. But,asa
quickreeminder,thissishowitw
works.Ifyou rightclickandseetheformatcontrrol,itshows thatthis
control islinkedto cellJ2.IfIggohereand verify,itisffalse.WehadthisINDEXXformulaea
arlierbut
now I am checking if J2 is false
e and if it is then I wantt N/A otherw
wise I want the value. So,
S when
everythiingisN/A,th
hetargetsw
willautomaticcallybegone
e.Thereisaminorannooyingproblem.Ifyou
see careefully, these bars are at this positio n but if I un
nhide the targets, the baars will grow
w. This is
becauseewhenIam showingthetarget,theetargetvalu
uehappensttobesomew
whereelsea
andExcel
automatticallyresizeestheaxissettingssothhatitcanfit everythingiintothecharrtarea.Now
w,whenI
showthetarget,itw
willagainressizethemaxximumaxisandwhenIhidethemtheentheaxism
maximum
will be sset to sometthing lower and so the bar will grow
w. This is a small probleem compare
ed to the
addition
nalclutterthatthetargettsaddtotheedashboard.

[00:11:224minutes]
Let's tesst this by so
orting on a particular K PI. Naturallyy, when you
u sort on KPPI, all the to
op values
happen tobethetop10percentileofthatpparticularKPI.But,ifyou scrolldownnfurther,you
ucansee
thatwe haveabuncchofrediconsattheendd.Thisishow
witworks.Ittisprettystrraightforwarrd.Ihave
addedafewmoreth
hings.IhaveaddedaleggendwhichissatextboxiinwhichIhaavetypedthe
elegend,
targets and the icon
ns are actua
ally three im
mages. I tookk their imag
ges and inse rted them using
u
the
Insert > Picture option and ressized and fo rmatted the
em so that we
w get a cusstomized leggend that
looks prretty awesom
me. So, this is step 4 off our dashbo
oard construction. At thiis point, we are very
close to
o what Robeert has done in the topp grid. The only things remaining are highligh
hting the
columnsswhichweccanfigureou
utveryeasil yandthenaaddingthese
etwochartss.Let'sgoah
headand
dothoseethings.

[00:12:447minutes]
We'llno
owopenstep
p51.Atthisspoint,Ihaveeformattedthisabitmo
oreasyoucaanseefromstep42.
Ihavead
ddedsomeccolorherebu
utthemostiimportantth
hingthatIhavedoneistoohighlightth
hewhole
column. The highligghting was done
d
using cconditional formatting
f
which
w
you c an easily figgure out.
doutwhichccolumnitis;;itisina
WhenI selecttheraadiobutton, Iamgoingttolookuphereandfind

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named rrange called


d valSortColu
umnNumber . Then, I am
m going to Co
onditional Foormatting > Manage
Rules w
where I am going to check if th at column number divvided by 3++1 is match
hing the
valSortC
ColumnNumb
ber.Forthe firstthreeccolumnsitw
willbe1and forthesecoondthreeco
olumnsit
willbe22andsoon.Itisprettysimplestuff.

[00:14:000minutes]
The mosst interesting chart here
e is this charrt comparingg one KPI with
w another.. Again, by now,
n
you
wouldh
havefigured outallthep
piecesoftheepuzzleoftthischart.It isaprettyssimplechart.Weare
selectingg two different KPIs and
d, in the bacckground, we
w are using the INDEX fformula to fetch
f
the
correspo
ondingvalueesforthose twoKPIs,i.ee.2and3.SSo,for2and
d3,thisisthheformula. Actually,
this is aan array fo
ormula enterred into 2000 cells, i.e. 2 rows with 100 cellls each. It is pretty
straightfforward.Weeareasking Exceltogiv eusthe2nd
dand3rdco
olumnvaluessfromtheP
P20:T119
range w
which contain
ns the 100 KPI values. TThey are acttually runnin
ng numbers from 1 to 100. You
couldalssouseasimplenormalfformulabutIIprefertheaarrayformulabecausethhatwayIjusthaveto
writetheformulaon
nceandente
eritinalltheecells.Thed
display10isagainaveryysimpleform
mulabut,
instead of getting itt from this liist, we use tthe above lisst. Remembe
er, this list hhas the ten products
thatwe areshowinggonthedasshboard. Theechartisassimplescatte
erplotwith twodifferen
ntseries;
series1ispointingtocolumnAwherethe1 stand2ndK
KPIvaluesareandthisis series2.We
ejustput
series2inbrightred
dcolorsotha
atitstandsooutinthedisstribution.Yo
oucanseeaaninterestinggpattern
whenyo
oucomparetthesameKP
PI.Itwillactuuallyshowth
hedistributio
onofthoseKKPIvalues.Bu
ut,Ihave
aninterrestingplan becauseIfe
eltthatwhileethesecharrtsareallgo
ood,youcouuldreplacethischart
withsom
methingelsee.Iamnotccriticizingwhhat Roberth
hasdone here;Iamsureethisisan excellent
chart. But, it's just that
t
I wante
ed to play w
with somethiing else from
m which youu can also le
earn new
tricks.

[00:16:117minutes]
Ihaveaddedadditio
onalformattingbywayooftheseboxes.Thisisaboxwithouttanyfillcolo
orsothat
dovercome thecellboundarylimitaationsthatExxcelimposessonus.Sofaar,sogood.Wehave
wecould
done qu
uite a few nice
n
things and
a we've m
made good progress. We
W can sort on any KPI,, we can
highlighttthecolumn
n,wecansh
howandhideetargets,we
ecanhighlig
ghttheKPIs whicharebelowthe
10th and more than
n the 90th percentile
p
annd we can co
ompare one KPI with annother. This is pretty
good stu
uff. If you sccroll down, you can seee that the diisplayed KPIss naturally cchange here and the
distributtionchangess.Everythinggisnicelyinteerlinked.

[00:17:007minutes]
Iwantto
oshowtheffinalstep(sttep52)whicchishere.Th
henextstepwouldbethheKPIdistrib
bution.If
you look at Robert's dashboard
d, he's actu ally shown the KPI distribution. Hee's shown minimum,
m
maximum,average andtargetp
perKPI.Iweentinadiffe
erentway.I showedtheeKPIdistribu
utionlike
this.So,forallthe1
100productss,eachprodductisonelitttleredline..Thisishow
wtheKPIsarespaced
out.Sinccethedataittselfwasran
ndom,itwonn'tmakemucchsense.But,ifIsortonnaparticularrKPI,you
cansee thepattern..TheKPIdisttributionwilllgiveusanideaofhowtheKPIsareespacedouttandthis
chart is a pretty intteresting cha
art. I don't w
want to bragg but I really liked this chart. I am going to
duplicattethischartbypressingCtrl+Dandeenlargeitsothatwecanexamineitiindetail.I'mgoingto

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turnon theaxis.Theechartisnothingbutannareaplotch
hartofalltheKPI1's.Ifyyoulookattheseries
itself,itispointingto
oP20:P119.IfIcometo Calculationss,wehaveKP
PI1incolumnnP.So,thesearethe
valuesth
hatwehaveplotted.Wh
hatevermay betheproductorderon
nwhichtheyaresorted,weshow
theKPIssinthatordeer.Thesered
dlinesarennottheones thatweare
eshowingheerebutthese
earethe
onesthaatwesearch
hed.So,ifIe
entered1inn'searchby product'the
enalltheprooductswhossenames
has 1 eeither in the beginningg, middle, eend or anyw
where [it's just
j
a wildccard search]] will be
highlightted. If you remember,
r
we
w learnt thhe same con
ncept in the data validaation and vissual data
filtering lesson in which
w
I showed how to ccreate a visu
ual filter with conditionaal formattingg and an
ActiveXtextbox.Asyoutype,th
heAxtiveXteextboxwould
dupdatethe
ecell.IfIdeleete1,youca
anseeall
the100 values.IfI type2,allth
heproductnnamesthat have2will behighlighteed.Now,ou
urdatais
prettylaamebecauseeithasproductnamesliikeproduct 1,2,3etc.B
But,inrealli fe,you'llhavveactual
productsliketshirtssetc.Ifyou'resellinghuundredsofproducts,Iwo
ouldimagineethatyou're
erunning
aretailo
operation.Yo
oucould,forrexample,seearchforalltheproducttslikechipsoorchocolate
esand,as
youtypee,alltheKPIsforthosep
particularprooductswillb
behighlighted
dinredlinessandeverythingelse
willbed
dullgray.In ourcase,we
ecouldjust usethenum
mber5andw
whenevertheeproductha
as5init,
it'llbesh
hown.Asyoucansee,5,,15,25,35,445,5059,65
5,75,85and
d95areshow
wn.Or,youcouldtry
somethiinglike9or 0.Thisisap
prettyintereestingwayto
osearchthelistandshoowthedistrib
butionat
thesam
metime.Thissisavisualffilter.IfIsellectaparticu
ularproducttlikeproducct23or49tthenthat
alonewithbehighligghtedwitharedline.

[00:21:115minutes]
Thered linelooksm
mysteriousbu
utitisactualllyprettysim
mple.Ineach
hKPI,IamasskingExceliffitfound
thenum
mber2byussingtheFIND
Dformula.T heformulaiisprettysim
mple;ifyouffindthevalueinF18,
which iss the cell that the ActivveX text boxx is feeding into, in the range C20:CC119 (which
h are the
product names)and
difthefindvvaluereturnnsapositive numberthe
enjustgetm
methecorressponding
KPIelse giveme#N//Abecausetthatwaytheechartwilln
notshowanyythingandw
willjustblankkoutthe
redline..Oncethisd
dataisthere,,Ihaveplotttedthisnew data.TheoriginalKPIsw
wereplotted
dasarea.
Thenew
wKPIswerep
plottedasaline.Oncethhedataisplo
ottedasalin
ne,Isetthellinecolortonoline.I
setYerrrorbars,i.e.theerrorba
arsthatwillggodown.Thesearevertiicalerrorbarrsthatgoallltheway
inthem
minusdirectio
onwithouta
anycap.So, eventhough
hthereisallinegoingabbove,itisno
otvisible.
Theonlyythingthat weseeisthisredlinecoorrespondingtothatparticularprodduct.Iamsu
urethisis
quitean
ninteresting chartthatyyou'llfindapppropriateusseforsomew
where.But, Iparticularlyywanted
toexperrimentandd
deviatefromRobert'smeethodatleasstinafewwayssothatw
wecouldlearnalittle
morethanwhatRob
berthasshownusalreaddyonthewe
ebsite.ThisiswhatourKKPIdistributionlooks
like.Itisssearchableebyproduct andyouca nseethediistributionfo
orallthe5KKPIs.Ifyoussortona
particulaarKPIhere,iitwillautomaticallychannge.

[00:23:337minutes]
It would
d be even more
m
interestting to show
w the distribu
ution by botth actual andd target valu
ues but I
didn't w
want to push
h myself too
o hard. As iit is, this chart in itself was pretty comprehen
nsive and
insightfu
ul.But,ifyou
uwant,youcantakeup thattaskashomeworkandtellushhowyoumad
deit.You
can disaable and enaable the targgets and maake them sccroll through
h this list. It is pretty sim
mple but
interestiing stuff. Yo
ou can compare KPIs aand you can
n search for any KPI. Thhis is how we have
construcctedoutKPIdashboard.Thisconcluddesthelesso
ononKPIdasshboards.Ikknowwestarrtedwith

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a differeent goal; wee started witth this dash board as ou


ur goal. But, I believe, w
we have ach
hieved so
muchm
morebecauseewehavelea
arnthowto useExcel20
007'sfeature
eslikecondittionalformatttingand
some off those nicee little thinggs to make it a little more
m
interestting and poowerful than
n what it
originallywas.

[00:24:445minutes]
Ihopeyyou'veenjoyedthelesso
on.Letmereecapwhatw
we'vedoneveryquickly. Westarted withthis
dataherrewhichhassabout100productsan d5differenttKPIs.Weto
ookadeviattionfromthe
eoriginal
dashboaardwhereon
nlytheKPIsweredisplayyed.Wesaid
dthatwewe
eregoingto addtargetsforeach
of thosee KPIs. Again
n, we used the RAND fformula to generate
g
the
e numbers. Then, we created a
scrollablle list using this scroll bar
b control aand INDEX formulas [it could be IND
DEX or OFFSSET]. We
added ssorting to th
he list. Here, there was no way to restore to the original sort order which is
product 1to100,so
oweaddedtthisaddition alradiobutttonusingwh
hichwecoulddrestorethe
eoriginal
sortorder.Oncetheesortingwassdone,weaaddedsome additionalin
ndicatorslikeeshowingth
hetarget
value on
n the chart as well as highlighting
h
tthe bottom 10 and top 90 percenttile values. Then,
T
we
addedaanadditionalfeaturetosshowandhiddetargetsfrromthecharrtsothatitw
wouldbeea
asyforus
to visually see the data
d
as it is or comparee it with targgets. We have also seenn how to highlight a
particulaar columnbasedoncon
nditionalform
matting whe
enyouaresortingonthhatcolumn. Wethen
made th
his chartto compareon
c
eKPIwithaanother. Finaally,weaddedthesechaartstoshow
wtheKPI
distributtionaswellaassearchforranyparticuularproduct.Thisisawildcardsearchhsoitisafu
unwayto
explorethedataourrselves.

[00:26:334minutes]
Ihopeyyouhaveenjjoyedthelesssonimmensselyandlearntsomene
ewtechniqueesbecausettheseare
powerfu
ultechniquessusingwhich
hyoucancreeatereallyim
mpressiveExxceldashboaardsthatcannotonly
knockyo
ourboss'sso
ocksoffbut alsohelpyoouwinalot ofbrownie pointsandhhelpyouunderstand
what is going on with your datta and makee some valuaable and important deciisions. As I said
s
very
ninthedash
hboardlessons,dashboa rdsareveryypowerful.O
Often,theysseemverydiifficultto
earlyon
createb
becausenotm
manypeople
eunderstanddwhatgoes intoit.Buto
onceyouknoowthatada
ashboard
isnothin
ngbutamixttureofacou
upleofchartssandinsightts,itisapretttysimpleprrobleminitse
elf.

[00:27:119minutes]
So,goaaheadanddo
ownloadall thefilesanddespeciallytthestep52 filewhichissthefinalversionof
thedash
hboard.Exam
minetheseffilesindetaillsothatyou
uunderstand
dthetechniqquesthatwe
e'veused
andhow
wwemadetthesefiles.I encourageyyoutoactuaallytakeana
alternativevvisionfromtthisdata;
select th
his data and
d create you
ur own dash board and come
c
up witth somethinng interestingg, funny,
insightfu
uloranalyticcalandshare
eitwithalloofusthrough
hcomments.Youcanalsooemailmeyyourfiles
atchand
doo.d@gmaiil.com.Goah
headandem
mailmeyourrfiles;Iwouldliketotakkealookatw
whatyou
haveach
hievedandh
helpyououtwithsomeooftheproble
emsthatyoumayhave.

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[00:28:009minutes]
Thankyousomuch forjoiningE
ExcelSchool .Inthenexttlesson,wewillundersttandhowto createa
salesdashboard.Untilthattime,,youhavea greatdayah
head.Bye.

[00:28:221minutes]
Hiagain,thereisassmallerrorin
nthelesson andthat'sw
whyIamreco
ordingthiseerrataintheend.The
KPI disttribution chaart that we showed att the bottom right corrner of the KPI dashbo
oard was
incorrecctlyshowing theproducttnumbersanndtheprodu
uctnumbersswerenotpoointingtoth
hesorted
rangean
ndwereinsteadpointinggtotheorigiinalorder.Th
hat'swhyevenwhenweesortedtheKPIsona
differentcolumnan
ndwhenwe filteredbypproduct2,itwasstillshowingthem
markersatth
hewrong
places.I'vefixedtheeerrorinthe
edownloadaablefilebutthelessonw
wasrecordeddpreviouslyandsoit
showsth
heresultinccorrectly.Ple
easekeepth isinmindw
whenyouare
ewatchingthhedownload
dablefile
becauseeitmightpoiinttotheinccorrectpage .Thankyou.Bye.

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