CP044: My first dashboard was a failure!!!

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In the 44th session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s talk about failures.

My first dashboard was a failure and what did I learn from it - making awesome dashboards - Chandoo.org podcast - session 44

What is in this session?

In this podcast,

  • Book announcement about Dashboards for Excel
  • Story of my first ever dashboard
  • Important lessons – Requirement Analysis for dashboards
  • Resources for creating awesome dashboards
    • Podcasts
    • Books
    • Courses

Listen to this session

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Resources to make awesome dashboards

Podcast episodes:

Books on Dashboards:

Courses:

Excel School, is a comprehensive online course to help you become awesome in all aspects of data analysis, visualization, interactive workbooks, dashboard reporting and automation.

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In this course, you will learn to:

  • Analyze data using simple & advanced formulas in Excel
  • Structure & process large volumes of data quickly using tables & pivot tables
  • Present information using charts, interactive & dynamic charts and complex charts
  • Create dashboards using 8 in-depth tutorials & case studies
  • Make gorgeous workbooks using conditional formatting, color & font choices and more
  • Develop workbooks faster: using my favorite tricks and productivity hacks

Please click here to know more about Excel School and enroll

Transcript of this session:

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Help our community & me learn more by sharing your mistakes

It’s your turn. Share the mistakes you made during data analysis, dashboard preparation or automation projects. Let’s all learn from these and become stronger.

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    How do i create a chart that has negative numbers on axis x and y and plot them correctly? I cannot seem to understand how to do this, please help.
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    Nat

  7. MSWebReviewer says:

    You can also plot 2 or more Y axes in Excel using EZplot or Multy_Y from Office Expander.com
    There is a demo version to try.
    Cheers.

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