Dashboard Week Day 2: KPI Dashboard


Today, we learn about Power BI.

The task is to pick an industry and use Mockaroo to create a data set with the industry of our choice. Then create a KPI dashboard using Power BI. For the Mackaroo data there are a few boxes we had to check:

Data MUST include:

  1. Time series
  2. At least 3 dimensions; e.g., products, suppliers, etc.
  3. Geographical data
  4. At least 4 measures; e.g., sales, profit, targets, etc.
  5. Demographic data about customers (so there must be customers in the data set)
  6. Anything else they wish to include in their dataset

This is what the data looks like in Mackaroo:

Below is the final dashboard, which is an overview of how anhospital is doing by state

Author:
Islande Derazin
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