This book takes a hands-on approach to developing dashboards, from instructing users on advanced Excel techniques to addressing dashboard pitfalls common in the real world.
Dashboards for Excel is your key to creating informative, actionable, and interactive dashboards and decision support systems. Throughout the book, the reader is challenged to think about Excel and data analytics differently-that is, to think outside the cell. This book shows you how to create dashboards in Excel quickly and effectively.
In this book, you learn how to:
- Apply data visualization principles for more effective dashboards
- Employ dynamic charts and tables to create dashboards that are constantly up-to-date and providing fresh information
- Use understated yet powerful formulas for Excel development
- Apply advanced Excel techniques mixing formulas and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to create interactive dashboards
- Create dynamic systems for decision support in your organization
- Avoid common problems in Excel development and dashboard creation
- Get started with the Excel data model, PowerPivot, and Power Query
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: All about Dashboards
1. Introduction to dashboard development
2. A Critical View of Information Visualization
3. The Principles of Visualization
4. Advanced Visualization
Part II: Excel Dashboard Design Basics
5. Getting Started: Thinking Outside the Cell
6. Visual Basic for Applications for Excel, a Refresher
7. Avoiding pitfalls in Excel development
Part III: Formulas, Controls, and Charts
8. The Components of a Dashboard
9. Introducing Formula Concepts
10. Applying Formula Concepts
11. Metrics: Context and Performance
12. Introduction to Controls
13. Project Management/Gantt Chart Dashboard
14. Project Management II: Adding Decision Support
15. Introduction to Dynamic Charts
16. Chart Minis
Part IV: From user interface to presentation
17. Getting Input from Users
18. Storage Patterns for User Input
19. Building for Sensitivity Analysis
20. Perfecting the Presentation
Part V: Advanced Dashboards with Databases
21. Introduction to Microsoft Business Intelligence
22. Data Model Capabilities of Excel 2013
23. Advanced Modeling with Slicers, Filters, and PivotTables
24. Power Query and other useful tools
