Excel 3: Dynamic Dashboards

Description

This course provides practical tips and hands-on application to a variety of data management, charting and formatting skills in an Excel environment. Participants will build a series of charts in order to create a dashboard. A variety of chart types will be explored. Automating titles, creating informative labels and text boxes and learning best practices for dashboard design and construction will be covered.

Prerequisites

This course builds on the Excel tools from "Excel 1: Core Data Analysis" and "Excel 2: Advanced Data Analysis", including lookup functions, tables and pivot tables. Participants should be comfortable with these skills prior to taking this course.

Time

8 hours

Learning Topics

Communicate with the Optimal Chart Type

Determine the optimal chart for presenting types of data
Learn design ideas for simple and elegant charts: colour, position, size and shape
Learn complex chart structures such as bubble charts and multiple chart styles in a single chart
Use slicers and other tools to rapidly create interactive and flexible analyses

Data Organization and Manipulation Best Practices

Organize and manage data effectively for chart and table creation
Employ sophisticated automation techniques to manage data
Use pivot tables to build powerful data analysis capabilities and link them to charts
Learn pivot table formatting techniques to enable their use in reports and dashboards

Powerful Formatting and Automation Techniques

Use formulas to automate titles and labels with special techniques for format control
Use conditional formatting for unique data display and highlighting techniques
Eliminate footnotes and excess comments by using text functions to automatically create powerful descriptions in charts and tables
Learn chart formatting tips to simplify chart creation and to build elegant and easily maintained visual reports