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Building Interactive Dashboards in Microsoft 365 Excel
Author(s): Michael Olafusi
Publisher: Packt Publishing Pvt. Ltd., Year: 2024
Description:
365 Excel is a modern Excel version that is constantly updated with features that make creating and automating analyses, reports, and dashboards very easy compared with older Excel versions. This book will help you leverage its full capabilities, beginning with a quick overview of what dashboards are and how they are different from other types of reports. Then, you'll familiarize yourself with the different standard dashboards currently available and what they are meant to accomplish for organizations. As you progress, you'll get to grips with the use of new powerful tools such as Power Query and dynamic array formulae in the automation of analysis, gaining insights into the right approach to take in building effective dashboards. You'll equip yourself with not only all the essential formulae, charts, and non-chart visuals but also learn how to set up your dashboard perfectly. Along the way, you'll build a couple of awesome dashboards from scratch to utilize your newfound knowledge.
By the end of this book, you will be able to carry out an impressive and robust level of analysis on business data that may come from multiple sources or files, using better processes, formulae, and best practices in M365 to create insightful dashboards faster.
What You Will Learn:
Understand the importance of dashboards in today's business analytics environment
Delve into the various essential formulae in Excel
Utilize Power Query to shape and transform data to extract insights easily
Explore the power of the new dynamic array functions in M365
Employ PivotTable and Power Pivot to automate your dashboards
Master the setup and optimization of your dashboard canvas
Discover best practices for visualization, charts, and effective dashboard creation
Consolidate your knowledge through a hands-on concluding project
365 Excel is a modern Excel version that is constantly updated with features that make creating and automating analyses, reports, and dashboards very easy compared with older Excel versions. This book will help you leverage its full capabilities, beginning with a quick overview of what dashboards are and how they are different from other types of reports. Then, you'll familiarize yourself with the different standard dashboards currently available and what they are meant to accomplish for organizations. As you progress, you'll get to grips with the use of new powerful tools such as Power Query and dynamic array formulae in the automation of analysis, gaining insights into the right approach to take in building effective dashboards. You'll equip yourself with not only all the essential formulae, charts, and non-chart visuals but also learn how to set up your dashboard perfectly. Along the way, you'll build a couple of awesome dashboards from scratch to utilize your newfound knowledge.
By the end of this book, you will be able to carry out an impressive and robust level of analysis on business data that may come from multiple sources or files, using better processes, formulae, and best practices in M365 to create insightful dashboards faster.
What You Will Learn:
Understand the importance of dashboards in today's business analytics environment
Delve into the various essential formulae in Excel
Utilize Power Query to shape and transform data to extract insights easily
Explore the power of the new dynamic array functions in M365
Employ PivotTable and Power Pivot to automate your dashboards
Master the setup and optimization of your dashboard canvas
Discover best practices for visualization, charts, and effective dashboard creation
Consolidate your knowledge through a hands-on concluding project