Dashboard Week - Day 2

Today is day 2 of dashboard week. The day started of interesting, no one in my cohort knew where to find the brief. Unlike before (first month of training) we would find our brief in Convo, this time it was a blog. After we found the blog, we had to do some digging around to actually find the data.

The brief was the following:

"Today's goal is to familiarize themselves with Power BI. They will have had little or no training in PBI, but I'm convinced they have the skills to make a quick transition. This will require them to learn PBI throughout the day. 😱 We have 4 mock data sets for 4 different industries: Customer Service, HR, IT Help Desk, SEO Analytics. Since there are 8 of them in each cohort, they must self-organize so that no data sets are used by more than 2 people. From there, the project is simple. Build a great dashboard in PBI, most likely some sort of KPI dashboard will give them the best overall experience. They must create a dashboard in Power BI, publish it to the Power BI gallery, make it public, then post on the Power BI Data Stories Gallery."

As the brief mentions, we are not that familiar with Power Bi, we only had one session on it a little while back. I choose to do a HR dashboard.

Approach:

I first did some data discovery, listed down all the headers and started thinking about the types of charts I could create. Not being very familiar with HR dashboards I did a quick Tableau Public and Power Bi search to look for inspiration. That is when I discovered my first limitation, the HR dataset is small (100 rows, 8 columns), there are only a limited number of charts I could create. I started exploring if I could find and relationship between the measures in the data, there was none.  

Here is what I created:

I thing that I found easier in Power Bi is actually creating the dashboard as Power Bi doesn't have containers so you can move your graphs wherever you want.

Author:
Diaraye Barry
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