
Watch the watch me first video to understand the project goals and required steps. Follow the series step by step to prevent errors and ensure you complete all videos.
Learn how to use the practice files and project files for the sales dashboard, including renaming extensions, enabling macros, and connecting to external data.
Learn to build a dynamic Excel dashboard by loading folder data into workbook tables and refreshing to update visuals, while considering data size and performance.
Learn to add visual icons and 3D icons in your Excel dashboards by exploring icons, pictures, and illustrations, using categories, search, multiple selection, rotation, and color customization.
Discover practical techniques for selecting colors in Excel dashboards using color pickers, RGB and hex codes, and pulling colors from images or thumbnails to ensure cohesive designs.
Resolve broken links by refreshing external data sources and continuing through the prompts, without editing links, to update the dashboard data correctly.
Identify and fix errors in Power Query before building your Excel dashboard by locating the source, editing the query, and updating file parts.
Explore how Excel understands formulas, numbers, and cell references, and use cell references with criteria and ranges instead of hard-coded values in if formulas.
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Develop an interactive Excel dashboard from scratch using formulas and functions to analyze 2022 sales data from a 2019–2022 dataset, without pivot tables, and generate simple insights and recommendations.
Build an interactive Excel dashboard to analyze 2022 revenue and group 2019–2021 data, using filters, unique lists, data validation, and pivot table techniques to update charts automatically.
Craft an interactive Excel dashboard by building a product revenue chart, applying data validation and filters, and using index and match to sort products from highest to lowest.
Explore revenue by order channel, comparing online and in-store sales for 2022, then build and format a chart on the dashboard using Excel calculations.
Build an interactive Excel map that switches between revenue and quantity sold, detailing data cleaning, unique state lists, and dynamic formulas for state-level insights.
Learn to build a dynamic map chart in Excel by using transpose, data validation, and if logic to switch between revenue and quantity sold, with live chart updates.
Format the product chart and create a dynamic header for an interactive Microsoft Excel dashboard. Use the Developer tab and form controls to drive the header and chart by selection.
Learn how to format an Excel dashboard by selecting logo colors, applying consistent highlight colors with transparency to 34%, removing lines, sizing elements, and aligning legends for clear data visualization.
Learn practical chart formatting to highlight the 2022 focus in an Excel dashboard, including text boxes, area charts, color coding, labeling, legends, and revenue breakdowns by orders and online.
Explore building a dynamic Excel dashboard that uses conditional logic to display the product with the highest revenue for year 2022, with references to prior years and adaptable year switching.
Format charts with color scales to distinguish negative values from positive values and revenue from quantity sold. Build targeted recommendations using top populated states to boost in-store revenue with ads.
Master full dashboard formatting in Excel by creating and aligning lines, applying gradients and transparency, and configuring interactive measures like revenue till date and quantity sold till date.
The dataset used in this dashboard is data pulled from income and expenses statements; it has 10 columns and 487 rows for 2021.
Your task (insight required from the dataset)
1) What is the stream of income, how much do we make in our income categories, and what are the categories we spent this money on, show the result hierarchically?
2) Inflow and outflow. Make Debit and credit plus amount left easy to read.
3) Analyze the income sources and show how much had been made on each source to date.
4) On a weekly basis show expenses by categories
5) On a single chart ? visualize and transit between income and expenses on a monthly basis
6) What are the top-5 things we spent money on, mostly?
7) Show important KPI’s on cards ? for easy readability and for quick decision making
Active filters needed to interact the data and the dashboard: Month and categories column
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Personal Expenses Dashboard….
The dataset used in this dashboard is data pulled from income and expenses statements; it has 10 columns and 487 rows for 2021.
Your task (insight required from the dataset)
1) What is the stream of income, how much do we make in our income categories, and what are the categories we spent this money on, show the result hierarchically?
2) Inflow and outflow. Make Debit and credit plus amount left easy to read.
3) Analyze the income sources and show how much had been made on each source to date.
4) On a weekly basis show expenses by categories
5) On a single chart ? visualize and transit between income and expenses on a monthly basis
6) What are the top-5 things we spent money on, mostly?
7) Show important KPI’s on cards ? for easy readability and for quick decision making
Active filters needed to interact the data and the dashboard: Month and categories column
Learn to design an Excel dashboard layout by saving your work, arranging shapes and colors, and building a pivot table to analyze data with mean and max.
Build an interactive Excel dashboard to analyze expenses flows, classify cash outflows by category, and visualize with a waterfall chart and polished visuals.
Build an interactive Excel dashboard to show cash inflow and outflow, balance on a single chart, with formatting, colors, legends, and weekly analyses.
Learn to create KPI cards in an interactive Excel dashboard by configuring dimensions, measures, and visuals, including color changes, icons, and layout alignment.
Create an interactive Excel dashboard for monthly expenses analysis by linking income, expenses, and balance, using pivot tables, form controls, and dynamic transitions to compare month-by-month data.
Learn how to integrate and format filters in an interactive Excel dashboard, connecting data fields and pivots, configuring interactions, and styling hover effects, selected items, and kpi visuals.
Dashboard for shipping status….
This dashboard contained thousands of rows of data with one transactional table and 4 other tables called dimensional tables with data.
The company sells goods like furniture, office supplies, and tech-related products. The company shipped those goods to its warehouse before sales and distribution. They use shipping companies like COSCO, Hapag Lioyd, Evergreen Line, YMMT, APM Maersk, and MSC.
The goal here is to find insight using the historical data provided by the company to make features shipping, sales, or delivery faster and more efficient.
Your task (insight required from the dataset)
1) Using sub-category, what are the quantity ordered, delivered and how many of the orders are not delivered over time
2) From the insight gotten from the first step, make it easy to sort ascending and descending order dynamically by clicking on some option buttons. The idea is to be able to know where we have high and fewer orders delivered, and undelivered.
3) Make chart transition that can display quantity ordered, received, unreceived, and number of transactions over time using the contained transaction years in the dataset
4) Using the shipping companies, how many quantities were ordered and how many of those orders were received. Use a chart that will best show a comparison.
5) Which shippers do we use most to ship those goods?
6) Numbers of goods that are not delivered by the use shipping companies
7) Show these three insights on cards for easy readability: Quantity ordered, Quantity shipped, and Quantity unshipped
The active filter needed to interact with the data and the dashboard: Year slicer/filter and shippers slicer/filter.
Master data cleaning and transformations in Excel using Pakiri to shape tables, detect and set correct data types, add custom and conditional columns, and build relationships for an interactive dashboard.
Learn how to save an Excel dashboard project, name the file, save as a macro-enabled workbook, and confirm the save to preserve work.
Create an Excel dashboard layout by preparing a dedicated dashboard sheet, styling visuals with gradients and no gridlines, and building category-based pivot insights with percentages.
Create a shipping insight dashboard by analyzing orders delivered by shippers using pivot tables and charts in Excel to visualize delivery by shipper.
Compare the quantity ordered to the received orders using a dashboard that visualizes order data and shipping status.
Explore how to set KPI dimensions and chart heights, build and customize a Microsoft Excel dashboard with pivot tables, legends, colors, and percentage calculations for data analysis.
learn to apply conditional formatting in excel dashboards by using formulas to color-code rows, bold text, and adjust font color for values like 1, 2, or 3.
Learn to integrate filters and formatting in an Excel dashboard by configuring slicers, colors, and hover effects to highlight the selected item and connect all dashboard parts.
Dashboard for shipping status….
This dashboard contained thousands of rows of data with one transactional table and 4 other tables called dimensional tables with data.
The company sells goods like furniture, office supplies, and tech-related products. The company shipped those goods to its warehouse before sales and distribution. They use shipping companies like COSCO, Hapag Lioyd, Evergreen Line, YMMT, APM Maersk, and MSC.
The goal here is to find insight using the historical data provided by the company to make features shipping, sales, or delivery faster and more efficient.
Your task (insight required from the dataset)
1) Using sub-category, what are the quantity ordered, delivered and how many of the orders are not delivered over time
2) From the insight gotten from the first step, make it easy to sort ascending and descending order dynamically by clicking on some option buttons. The idea is to be able to know where we have high and fewer orders delivered, and undelivered.
3) Make chart transition that can display quantity ordered, received, unreceived, and number of transactions over time using the contained transaction years in the dataset
4) Using the shipping companies, how many quantities were ordered and how many of those orders were received. Use a chart that will best show a comparison.
5) Which shippers do we use most to ship those goods?
6) Numbers of goods that are not delivered by the use shipping companies
7) Show these three insights on cards for easy readability: Quantity ordered, Quantity shipped, and Quantity unshipped
The active filter needed to interact with the data and the dashboard: Year slicer/filter and shippers slicer/filter.
Connect external data in Excel, clean and transform from web and files, compute revenue, cost of goods sold (COGS), and profits with custom columns, and build a pivot table dashboard.
create and customize a dashboard environment by laying out cards, shapes, and charts, applying color themes, aligning elements, and configuring titles and data labels for an engaging data analysis dashboard.
Build an interactive Excel dashboard populating sections for orders, revenue, cost of goods sold, and net profit. Use cross sections, named ranges, and formatting to organize data and visualize metrics.
Choose the right extension to save your Excel workbook on servers, ensuring a reliable backup and quick recovery if the file becomes corrupted.
Build an interactive Microsoft Excel dashboard to analyze monthly and quarterly revenue and net profit, using cards, time grouping, and dynamic charts with offset and index.
Edit the data query to add custom and conditional columns, calculate delivery days from shipping dates, and label shipments as within a week, within a month, or within two months.
Learn to build and customize shipping interval charts in an interactive Excel dashboard by region, including data selection, copying, offset adjustments, and dynamic filters.
Learn to build a dynamic Excel dashboard by connecting filters for year, quarter, country, and region, format charts with color coding, and secure it with a password.
Profit Analysis Dashboard ….
This is another dynamic and highly interactive dashboard that we built using DAX. DAX stands for Data Analysis Expression, which is a common language used on different software like Power BI and others.
The aim here is to help you get used to some simple DAX language should you have large data that you want to analyze in excel. DAX is always an ideal way to handle large data pushed into power pivot in Microsoft Excel.
The dataset used in this class has its base in a folder, in a single folder we have data from 2019 to 2021. We know the data in this folder as the Fact Table, the Fact Table is the table that houses the transaction details, like purchases, quantity, order dates, and some important IDs that will link the Dim Tables.
There is five or sex Dim Table that will use Power pivot to handle and create relationships in other to get a free flow of data when creating our analysis.
Your task (insight required from the dataset)
1) Need to see the cumulative sales from the beginning of the transaction year to the last transactional year which is 2021. It should be dynamic should there is new data in for the subsequent years to come.
2) Who 3 profitable customers? This will make us know who among our customers support our company growth.
3) Who are the 3 least customers? This will help our company to find why and what we need to do to motivate them to buy more from us in the future.
4) Show the yearly profit and growth
5) What is the trend of our profits on a monthly basis?
6) What is the trend of our profits quarterly?
7) Other insights needed are the numbers of transactions, total customers, numbers of products the company has currently, and numbers of countries that we sell to.
I needed the active filter to interact with the data and the dashboard: Country, products, and months
Learn to diagnose and fix multiple Power Query errors by refreshing connections, editing sources, and adjusting folder and table transforms to refresh data.
Explore writing DAX in Power Pivot to build revenue and cost of goods sold using calculated columns and measures, comparing when to use each for dynamic dashboards.
Design and customize an Excel dashboard layout by adjusting gridlines, highlighting cells, applying custom colors, inserting text and icons, and organizing visuals for key metrics like countries, projects, and customers.
Learn to pull card values in an Excel dashboard by creating and naming ranges, linking totals to country and transaction data, and formatting for clear visual displays.
Create KPI cards for an Excel dashboard, showing cost of goods sold, revenue, and net profit, with monthly trend lines, precise formatting, alignment, shadows, and color choices.
Learn to format numbers in custom formats, using rounding and conditional rules to display values in thousands, millions, or billions, and to dynamically concatenate figures for dashboards.
Get values for charts in an Excel dashboard by selecting data and handling no-data cases. Format currencies and decimals, and adjust styling to present a clear, auditable data view.
Learn how to add percentages to your data analysis dashboard to display profits, verify values, and ensure percentages appear consistently across the dataset.
Explore building an interactive Excel dashboard that highlights top and bottom buyers, creates dynamic captions, and uses top-n filters and cumulative analysis to drive customer insights.
Format and align values for top and bottom in the Excel dashboard, selecting numbers, applying bold, and inserting illustrations to create a tidy, color-coordinated visualization for cumulative totals and analysis.
Create a cumulative analysis of profit within an interactive excel dashboard. Learn to pull yearly data, apply currency formatting, adjust visuals, and add filters for focused insights.
Learn how to add and configure filters in an interactive dashboard by selecting country and product filters, applying them to a multi-chart view, and optimizing filter behavior.
Format an interactive Excel dashboard by configuring filters, visibility, and macros for show and hide actions. Link filters and modules to manage country and product views for data presentation.
Cancer Mortality Dashboard ….
Let’s work on non-financial data and see how we can get more creative creating a dashboard to decide on how to curb and deal with cancers using historical data from 1914 to 2019 with 34 columns and over 3,000 rows of data.
The causalities had been spat into distinct buckets in other to make it easy to spot patterns and decide. I had categorized it into age groups from age-5 all the way to age 90+.
Your task (insight required from the dataset)
1) Show causalities by age groups categories. This will make it easy to read which age group has more causalities.
2) Create a comparison chart that can dynamically compare age groups based on selections.
3) What are the cancers that affect the younger people under the age of 5, 5-9, 10-14, and 15-19
4) Total mortality by gender.
Create a homepage dashboard in Excel by building a pivot table, naming analyses, and arranging charts, images, and formatting to visualize mortality by age groups.
Design the main dashboard in Excel by inserting shapes, configuring card dimensions, and customizing colors for a cohesive, visually appealing analytics board.
Populate dashboard cards with poverty-rate data from 1994–2019, focusing on 2013–2019, by creating and formatting a pivot table, calculating percentages, and styling cards for clear comparison.
Learn to build a custom comparison line chart in Excel by configuring a dynamic dropdown, using transpose and dynamic arrays, and linking selections via index and offset for age-group comparisons.
Learn to build a comparison line chart in Excel by selecting ranges, using color codes to match data, and adjusting height values for accurate totals.
Format a comparison chart in Excel by linking age-group selections to the corresponding IS group, customizing markers, colors, and data labels, and finalizing with a polished dashboard view.
Create dynamic captions in an Excel dashboard by concatenating data to reflect age groups such as under five, 5–9, 10–14, and 15–19, updating as selections update.
Explore gender analysis by visualizing gender data in an interactive Excel dashboard, building dynamic charts, applying colors, and integrating dashboard elements for clear data storytelling.
Human Resource (HR) Dashboard ….
HR is the field of business concerned with recruiting and managing employees. In other to track and the progress of the recruited employees over time the management will need a good hand to handle the recruitment historical data and the track record of the individual employees in the organization.
The dataset is in CSV format and is very rough which might get you to fret and freeze at first glance. We used an inbuilt tool called Power Query in Microsoft Excel to have the data cleaned and transformed into what we want and what we can analyze in other to help the organization.
Your task (insight required from the dataset)
1) What some criteria provided in the worksheet are how many employees need to be promoted under the Bachelor’s degree holders?
2) What are some criteria provided in the worksheet how many employees need to be promoted under the Doctorates holders?
3) What some criteria provided in the worksheet how many employees need to have salary increment in Tech support department
4) What are some criteria provided in the worksheet how many employees need to be promoted under the Sales and Marketing department?
5) Show total employees by educational background, what are the numbers of male and female employees based on the educational breakdown.
6) Total numbers of employees by job types and salary
7) Employees attrition (active and inactive employees)
8) Total employees by business units and salary pay to those business units. There should be some kind of transition between the numbers of employees and salary in one chart.
9) What are the five departments with the highest employees in the organization?
10) Numbers of employees by gender categories
11) Show numbers of employees by job classifications and on a table-view make it easy-to-read job classifications and with the educational breakdown
The active filter needed to interact the data and the dashboard: Department and gender
Transform raw workbook data by using Power Query to split a single column into multiple columns, set headers, adjust data types, and load the transformed data for dashboard-ready analysis.
Save your project to preserve changes as you set up an interactive Excel dashboard for data analysis, then proceed to customize dashboards like human resources and orders.
Learn to build a promotional analysis dashboard in Excel, using education filters, conditional logic (if and), job involvement, satisfaction, and performance to identify which employees deserve promotions.
Create an Excel dashboard layout by naming the worksheet 'dashboard', turning off grid lines, applying a background, adding a rounded-rectangle shape, and styling a 'human resources dashboard' header for charts.
Analyze department performance by transforming data, building a pivot table to extract top five departments by employee count, and visualizing results on a dynamic Excel dashboard.
Build and refine an interactive Excel dashboard to analyze gender details, using employee types, color coding, and percent of grand total to compare active and inactive workers.
Learn how to update this dashboard by connecting external data and transforming it simply. Ensure new data refreshes the dashboard for updated analytics.
Design an interactive Excel dashboard for job types by building and formatting charts, adjusting card heights, applying colors, and linking salary data with dynamic captions for clear analysis.
Build a dynamic Excel dashboard transition chart linking total employees and salaries by business unit, selecting fields, formatting the chart, and displaying salary as dollars.
Create and align educational background cards in the interactive Excel dashboard, style them with color and fonts, and visualize job classifications across educational backgrounds through percentage analysis.
Learn to build an interactive excel dashboard by displaying and hiding value cards, customizing colors and shadows, configuring table views, and using macros to toggle panel visibility.
Create an interactive excel dashboard by organizing education and gender data with pivot tables, percentages, and color-coded cards. Analyze and visualize bachelor, master, and education levels.
Learn to integrate filters and slicers in an Excel dashboard. Apply gender, education, and job-type filters, and automate with macros for a clean, interactive report for data analysts.
Build and refine an Excel dashboard to analyze employee promotions, selecting education, department, and job metrics, and visualize counts and promotion insights for management.
International migration Dashboard ….
This is another non-financial dashboard but a dashboard to analyze the migration of people from their countries to foreign countries for several reasons according to the historical data captured.
The dataset captured from immigrants show different visa like student visa, work visa, visiting visa, and residential visa. We only have data for January and February 2020 with over 40 thousand rows and over 13 columns.
Your task (insight required from the dataset)
1) Numbers of male and female immigrants
2) Migration detail on a monthly basis (January and February) makes it dynamic to capture new data if any.
3) How many people migrate with pets and without pets?
4) How many people migrate from these focus countries (Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, and Niue)
5) Hierarchically show visa according to how it is obtained by immigrants
6) Age-group by travel history
7) Numbers of final and provisional (Visa status)
The active filter needed to interact with the data and the dashboard: Visa types and status
Develop and customize an excel dashboard for monthly migration analysis, using pivot tables and slicers to compare two months by age group and gender, and visualize outcomes with color-coded charts.
Build an interactive Excel dashboard to analyze visa types by immigration with pivot tables and charts. Filter by country to reveal top visa trends and country insights.
A & B Investment Dashboard ….
This is one of my favorite dashboards ever. This dashboard is about the movement of goods from the seller to the buyers. The company sells seven distinct products and for every shipment, there is always track of the status of the shipment like Shipped, Received, Canceled, In progress, Resolved, Dispute, and on hold.
The status is an area of focus as it is important for the company to know how all the products shipped went.
The dashboard has a search feature to help get a quick look at buyers' or company’s transactions. With a search feature you can get to know about a particular company that buys from you, all you need do is type in the buyer’s company’s name into the search bar and hit enter, there you go, you have the results of all the search transaction.
Your task (insight required from the dataset)
1) Analyze total orders from 2020 to the last years of the transaction with a trend line that show monthly purchases
2) Make the same analysis and show it in percentages
3) What are the min and max orders for every sales year and what month do we have the min and max in?
4) Transactional status is a key to the company in other to track the progress of its purchases, make sure you display orders values to every status and show it up in cards for easy readability and decision making
5) Create a search bar that can quickly search for buyers’ transactions
6) How many do we have on each product and what is the quantity sold. Use images to represent each product.
The active filter needed to interact with the data and the dashboard: Country.
On filter selection, let it display the countries selected, and if there is none, let it display this message: Showing all countries orders, use the filter to get a new view or analysis.
Create a polished Excel dashboard layout by building cards, charts, and color schemes, while customizing data visuals and applying conditional formatting.
Learn to build and style top KPI cards on an Excel dashboard by adding values, selecting icons, coloring, and aligning six cards for clear data visualization.
Learn to build an interactive excel dashboard for data analysis by creating key performance indicators (kpi) and trend lines, organizing analysis sheets, and presenting percentages of grand total and charts.
Learn to build an interactive excel dashboard that uses conditional messages and captions to handle no data, display dynamic text, and summarize min and max sales across months.
Learn to customize search results in an Excel dashboard by building and styling pivot tables, creating a search bar, and using iferror with index–match to fetch data.
Design a dynamic search in an Excel dashboard by using header checks, lookups, and if statements to display relevant messages when results are empty, guiding dashboard population.
Visualize search results in an excel dashboard by formatting, aligning, color-coding, resizing, and organizing data, then apply a simple formula to analyze across countries.
Demonstrate visualizing search results messages in a data dashboard by using the search bar to query buyers, handle missing results, and apply formatting, alignment, and grouping to reveal buyer data.
Learn to configure an Excel dashboard to show a message when a country filter is selected, using ifs and not blank logic to display relevant countries.
Match the slicers with the background and tune visuals in the dashboard. Apply color codes, borders, font styles, and images, and set up macro-driven buttons to manage selections.
Add 3D images and values to an Excel dashboard, align and format visuals, and build product analysis visuals with percentage values.
Master final touches and formatting for an excel dashboard—align visuals, adjust color and shadows, and use named ranges and concatenation to display transactions on the product analysis page.
This course will take you beyond your expectations, I have put together all you need to master data analytics and dashboard creation. We use real-life datasets that are companies and industry standards.
You will learn from my years of experience as an analyst, data analytics freelancer, and as well learn how to monetize your data analytics skills and make money from them.
We have more projects in this course than you can ever find from other instructors (courses) on this platform. We illustrated all projects using a real-life dataset that applied to day-to-day business activities.
All the dashboards taught in these classes are not only dynamic and interactive but all so have outstanding designs.
By participating in this Microsoft Excel Dashboard course you'll gain the widely sought-after skills necessary to analyze enormous datasets.
You will learn Power Query for data cleaning and transformations, Power Pivot to handle huge datasets like millions of rows of data and have it analyzed in Excel.
You learn how to manipulate data with DAX language in Power Pivot and as well create easy relationships between multiple tables instead of using basic lookups that might slow your analytics down.
Join us today to create your own stories and help businesses make accurate decisions.