CP044: My first dashboard was a failure!!!

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

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

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Resources to make awesome dashboards

Podcast episodes:

• Create awesome dashboards with this 10 step process
• Make better charts by optimizing Data to Ink ratio
• Rules for making legendary column charts

Books on Dashboards:

• Information dashboard design by Stephen Few
• Non-designers design book by Robin Williams
• Dashboards for Excel by Jordan & Chandoo

Courses:

• Excel School + Dashboards – Online classes from Chandoo

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.

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.