
Turn an ugly data set into a polished dashboard by using charts, graphs, and basic formulas, building on Excel basics and downloading the sales data file for practice.
Create an Excel dashboard to analyze five years of sales data, showing sales results, return percentage, product ratings, and channel performance with year, product, channel, and area breakdowns.
Turn data into a named table, then build pivot tables to analyze sales by area and year with filters and value settings.
Create an Excel dashboard by building charts from pivot tables—line, area map, doughnut, waterfall, and 100 percent stacked charts—linking data with get pivot data and formatting currency and percentages.
Create an Excel dashboard by adding a dashboard tab, removing gridlines, applying a background image, and assembling a color-coordinated tile layout with sections for sales results, channels, returns, and ratings.
Assemble an Excel dashboard by copying charts, formatting areas and backgrounds, and applying gradient line and donut charts with linked data and labeled sales visuals.
Create and link custom slicers to a dashboard in Excel, connecting years, areas, products, and channels to pivot charts so all visuals filter in unison.
Automatically refresh pivot tables with a VBA macro triggered by worksheet changes, refreshing all pivot caches, including enabling the developer tab and saving as a macro-enabled workbook.
If you use Microsoft Excel in your professional life, or even personal life, then this class will be perfect for you.
This class is a project based class in which we will work together from beginning to end to create a dashboard in Microsoft Excel. It is designed as if we were in the workplace and have been assigned a new task.
You do not need any knowledge of Microsoft Excel to follow along with this course as we will start together from the beginning and work our way up to creating an amazing looking dashboard.
To start with, I will explain to you the fundamentals of a Pivot Table and how we can use them effectively for Dashboards. I will then show you how to create all of the charts that are needed for the dashboard. I will also show you how slicers work and how to make them look much better! You will also learn how to make the dashboard automatically refresh when new data is added to the data set. Finally, we will put it altogether and design an amazing looking dashboard.
After taking this class, you should feel confident in your ability to create a dashboard and transform a large data set into a insightful visual dashboard.