What is a dashboard, anyway? How do you build and use one?

http://georgejmount.com/excelforhealthcare

Source: http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-07-28

Data is like glasses…

…same with a dashboard.

Let’s just ignore Excel for a second…

Define requirements! • How frequently, where is the data, what do you want to know? • Rough mockup of the output you are going to generate• Who needs to use this?• Why do you need this? What is missing right now?

There are no solutions, only tradeoffs.

A few Excel tools for dashboards• PivotTables• Slicers• PivotCharts• Sparklines