Learn how to Improve your Excel experience with this Slide Share on Excel Dashboards. From Graphs & Charts to Slicer and Conditional Formatting. Feel free to share it with your colleagues and with any one who is looking to improve they Excel Skills!
In this Slide Share you will find :
- What are Excel Dashboards?
- Excel Tools
- A Roadmap for creation
- Examples
- Extra resources
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Excel Dashboards are interactive data
visualization tools which connect
perfectly with all Excel tools and give
you a graphical overview of your whole
dataset.
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5. What can be found in an Excel Dashboard?
◉ Several Charts & Graphs
◉ Slicers or Timelines
◉ Pivot Tables
Remember to give an overview of your dataset
and present mostly summarized information.
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6. Which tools can with an Excel Dashboard?
◉ Power Query
◉ Hyperlinks
◉ Custom & Conditional Formatting
Hyperlinks to other sheets are the best way to
move around your Excel Dashboard.
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7. Charts & Graphs
Create an overview of your Dataset using a
combination of these Data Visualization tools
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8. Charts
”A drawing that shows
information in a simple way,
often using lines and curves
to show amounts”
What are they?
Graphs
”A picture that shows how
two sets of information or
variables (…) are related,
usually by lines or curves”
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*Definitions from Cambridge Dictionary
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9. Charts let you present your Data
Set in a modern and easy to
understand way
Add Slicers to make your Excel
Dashboard interactive
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10. Graphs let you present forecasts & tendencies
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12. Always keep it Simple
Intuitive
The main objective of
an Excel Dashboard
is that the Data has to
be presented in an
user friendly
interface.
Overview
Remember that each
piece of the Excel
Dashboard has to be
synchronized with
the overall
ecosystem.
Conclusions
Venture into drawing
conclusions and
highlighting the most
relevant information.
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13. Roadmap
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Import Raw Data Set
Define your 3 Main
Concepts for you 3 Main
Sheets
Insert Graphs, Charts,
Slicers, Timelines and
other awesome tools
Clean Data using Power
Query, Pivot Tables &
Formulas
Create the Excel Dashboard
Template maintaining a
Color Palette
Finish all the details
(Update date, Profile
picture, etc.) and focus on
Coherence
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18. Extra resources
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Jeff Su
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Leila Gharani
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Kevin Stratvert
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