This is a guest article written by John for our Excel Dashboard Week.
Executive Review Dashboard using Excel
Snap-shot of the dashboard:
Purpose of the dashboard:
This Dashboard was constructed for a number of reasons, one of which was to reduce the number of reports produced with the same data ( up to 6 separate files ). As we all know, when it comes to senior management and reports / files the more information they can get on one report / file the better for them. So, with this in mind I created the Dashboard to show the data they need to see “quickly” each week.
How this Executive Review Dashboard is made?
I used various functions / formulas to help me construct this Dashboard, this isn’t the first one I have created, but I think this is the best one I have done so far and it is all thanks to the hints and tips and assistance I get form Chandoo’s site as well as Excel User *(Charley Kyd was the first inspiration for me to get involved with Dashboards ) and also a shout out to Clearly and Simply, another great site.
[Note by Chandoo: I have added numbers 1 to 7 on the snapshot to help you understand below portion.]
The top left corner (1) has data that shows what is happening right now, i.e. QTD Order volume, WW Requested supply, WW Available supply and the Avg projected orders ( based on historical analysis ). This table format is then supported by a simpler bar chart below it.
Below that I have used Scroll Bars (2 & 3) to allow a lot of data to be shown in a small space, scroll bars do this very nicely. The data in here would be a list of all the products within the current range of orderable parts ( the detail behind the table and bar chart above ). [Related tip: How to create a scrollable list in Excel Dashboards?]
The middle table (4) ( Last 4Qtrs + CQ 2009 Order Load by product ) shows the historical data for each of the current products ( and perhaps their predecessors ) with a bar chart to the right of it (6) showing the overall volume of those products and the table and bar chart are controlled by the drop down menus above the bar chart.
The Line Chart below (7) that shows the overall Sales Trend by month with a drop down menu to enable you to choose each year separately.
To the left of that there is a table (5), which is a snapshot using the picture link function, of the current order load status by product and again supports the data on the left hand side of the Dashboard.
Final Notes:
If anyone would like to leave a comment or ask questions about this Dashboard or indeed need help with anything ( even if I don’t know the answer I am sure Chandoo and his growing community would be able to help ) please feel free to ask.
Just a note to close. Since I started utilizing Chandoo’s site I have now started my own community internally within the company I work for and I am now teaching other people about Excel ( albeit 2003 level for now ) and encouraging them to expand their own knowledge of Excel and perhaps share what they learn with their colleagues and I fully intend to point some of these people to Chandoo’s site and will encourage them to sign up for Excel School.
Download Executive Review Dashboard Workbook:
Click here to download the executive review dashboard workbook & play with it.
Added by Chandoo:
What I liked in this Dashboard:
Techniques used: John used a variety of techniques like formulas (SUMPRODUCT, OFFSET), dynamic charts, scrollable lists and picture links which help us in analyze lots of information and present the results in minimal space.
Dynamic Dashboard: The dashboard lets us analyze and understand information for any quarter or region which is very good.
What can be improved in this dashboard:
Layout: Ideally, if a dashboard is in a rectangle or square layout, it would be easy to read and understand. The current setup suggests that it is incomplete.
A little more visualization: There are lots of numbers in this dashboard. I would suggest adding few more visualizations like showing indicators or applying conditional formatting or replacing a table with a chart. This would reduce the comprehension time. Of course, you can always add hyperlinks to detailed data so that if an executive is interested to drill-down, she can do so.
Spell out key messages: This dashboard would become even more effective by adding a small comment area at the bottom or top where key messages can be highlighted. [Related: Tweetboards as an alternative to Dashboards]
Thanks to John
Thank you very much John for sharing your work with all of us and showing us what is possible. I really appreciate your effort in writing this guest article and spreading good word about Chandoo.org and Excel School.
Say thanks to John
If you liked this dashboard, say thanks to John. Also, feel free to share your views on this dashboard. How would you have designed an executive review dashboard if it were up to you? Please share using comments.
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28 Responses to “FIFA Worldcup 2018 Excel Tracker – FREE Download”
Good work as always - I liked the way you did the "menu" on the left hand side (although the buttons aren't lined up between tabs if I'm being ultra picky)
Have you previously written about the method of extracting the Wikipedia page into Power Query? It's not something I recall seeing before.
ps other geeky observsations:
- the bracket columns are too narrow for the date & match number - and will need to be wider still when the team names get populated
- match 51 should be Moscow (Luzhniki) for consistency
- it's not possible to be 23 hours ahead of GMT - the International Dateline gets in the way! I think the maximum is 14. There are also a couple of countries who work to a quarter hour to make it really complicated!
- There's a typo in the how-to - "compated" instead of compared
Thanks for the lovely feedback. I have fixed almost all of them.
1) button alignment: this is tricky as row heights can change between sheets.
2) Column width is fixed now so bracket view looks better
3) Updated the stadium name
4) Did not bother with the 23 hours ahead thingie. This is more of a novelty feature 😛
5) Fixed the type
6) Fixed an issue with live score table. This should work as long as the points table is maintained in wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup
7) I have not discussed the technique of reading all tables on webpage to one big table. Watch out for a blog post on this soon.
Button alignment is one for the ultra-OCD sufferers 😉 There are ways, but only for those with too much time on their hands.
Aah, Excel. The perfect tool for people like us. Everything (cells) is in same shape and size by default and aligned perfectly. 😀
Is there actually a way to copy row heights (in the same way you copy column widths?)
By the way Chandoo, great post. I'm forwarding to my department. I actually use another query from the same page to automatically fill in the team names for the knock-out stages (I made one for round of 16 which I then duplicated and edited for quarter-finals etc.) This is incredible, I was always wondering how to do these type of queries from the web, and now I know 🙂
Hello!
This is quite amazing and incredibly cool to use 🙂
Testing the constraints of this sheets a few errors popped I noticed:
- Vlookup Group E-H refers to column J instead of E (eg. Brazil gets the same points as Russia because the formula looks up Russia twice)
- Power query only has 29 lines, the overview of has 32 but the 3 countries from group A are lost as the overview is refreshed - causing N/A in the group stage colums
@Jake.. thank you. I am sorry for the errors. I could not test the live points table until the games began. I see my folly now. I have fixed both issues and uploaded a new file. As the points table relies on a wikipedia page, if someone decides to change the layout or rename a column it can seriously harm this template. I took some precautions in the Power Query layer to adjust column names dynamically etc, but it is not foolproof.
Try downloading the newer version and let me know if you see something funny.
No worries!
Was able to fix the vlookup myself but the power query had me bit stumped 🙂 And wanted to give you a heads-up to everyone can enjoy it!
Thanks for the awesome sheet!
Hi,
Thanks for sharing this world cup tracker. Certainly makes it more interesting when the data is current. As a newbie, it also helps to have a couple of mistakes to find whether unintentional or not.
Thanks again
Hi,
Your v-lookups in the "Group Stage" tab for groups E, F, G, and H (all the ones under column O) are pointing to the wrong country. They all point to column J, so whatever happens to the countries in column J will also be reflected for the countries in the groups in column O for that same row.
Just thought I'd call that out. Thanks for the great work on this!
@Christian... Thanks for trying this and letting me know about lookups. I have fixed the issue now. Please download latest version for that and few more fixes.
Refresh All did not work correctly. Team names vanished though points were updated.
@Sheeloo... Can you please try with latest version (download again using above links). I tested up to latest Iran's stunning win over Morocco and it works.
Dear Chandoo
Thanks a lot for this worksheet.
However, while refreshing the data, I am getting error message as "Initialisation of Data Source failed".
May I know what version of Excel you are using? Do you have internet connectivity? If you are familiar with Power Query, try tracing the steps in the query editor. And oh, first start with the latest version of file (link above).
@Etienne - yes. Copy row, paste formats will do it, although obviously that will bring the formats of every cell in the row as well as the height.
Latest version seems to be working well.
One request: the Groups & Points tables on the Group Stage sheet have the team names pre-entered. This means they don't get sorted according to the results.
On my copy, I've changed them to a lookup, so they appear in the same order as the points table. It would be good if you can do the same if/when you release a new update!
Here's what I did. It's not the most elegant, but it works, and I didn't have much time to spend on it!
Using helper values of 1,2,3,4 in columns I and N for each group, the formula for the first team name in group A (cell J4) is:
=INDEX(points[Team],MATCH(OFFSET(J4,-(I4),0),points[Group],0)+(I4-1))
This can be copied & pasted to the other team name cells.
Cheers!
Good suggestion. I have made changes to the points table to remove lookups and just show teams in the order they appear in the detailed table. This way, You will see top two teams on first two rows. We could highlight them as well (figured this would make it look like a bowl of M&Ms, so didn't bother) or highlight *YOUR* team.
I consider my Excel skills as above average but far from guru and I love how your little projects like this get me to look at data in a new way. I would like to expand on the data in the points table through the use of some calculations but I am a little challenged by the data coming across as text. The Pts column is easy to deal with, but I'm having problems with the GD. The negative goal differential looks like it may be noted with an en dash instead of a minus sign, but if I search for an en dash in the data Excel doesn't find any. I would like to include conversion to a minus sign in my little macro so I can get everything to numbers but so far I am not having any luck. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help.
Thanks for such kind words 🙂
I suggest adding an extra step in Power Query to convert points, GD & other columns to numbers. You can replace em dash in PQ. I did not do it as this will add another layer of dependency and should the wikipedia page change, one more reason for the query to fail.
As always, an awesome spreadsheet from Chandoo. I love the Power Query score update without macros. The country watch-out is a unique feature as well!
For those who like a predictor template with flag lookup and a ribbon UI, here is our spreadsheet:
https://www.spreadsheet1.com/fifa-world-cup-2018-russia-free-prediction-templates-for-excel.html
Here is our World Cup 2022 template with LAMBDA functions:
https://www.spreadsheet1.com/fifa-world-cup-2022-qatar-free-prediction-templates-for-excel.html
[…] Interesting World Cup Tracker here at chandoo.org : https://chandoo.org/wp/fifa-worldcup-2018-tracker/ […]
Great template!
I came across another one with image vlookups for country flags
https://eexcel.co.uk/downloads (World_Cup_2018_Sweepstake.xlsx)
This is a great Template.
I am running Excel 2010 with the PowerQuery add-in running.
The scores will not update, so I followed the error and the second operation (Fitlered rows) says that the table is empty.
After a few minutes on Wikipedia, I realise that my PowerQuery skills are not good enough to work out what the issue is.
Any suggestions?
I would like to fix it myself is possible.
Thanks,
Sean.
@Sean... Can you try the latest version mate? I think it should work.
Where can I see the results for a specific match?
Thanks!
@Juan... You can now. I have included a results tab that shows match scores. This too is a live table. Just refresh data to get new results. Please download latest version file from links above to use this feature.
PS: There is another version coming soon with all goals too. I just have to spend some more time polishing the Json to table Power Query thingie.