Dashboards for Excel (eBook)

Jordan Goldmeier, Purnachandra Duggirala (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2015 | 1st ed.
XXVIII, 542 Seiten
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4302-4945-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Inhalt

Part I: All about Dashboards1. Introduction to dashboard development 2. A Critical View of Information Visualization3. The Principles of Visualization4. Advanced VisualizationPart II: Excel Dashboard Design Basics5. Getting Started: Thinking Outside the Cell 6. Visual Basic for Applications for Excel, a Refresher7. Avoiding pitfalls in Excel developmentPart III: Formulas, Controls, and Charts8. The Components of a Dashboard 9. Introducing Formula Concepts10. Applying Formula Concepts11. Metrics: Context and Performance12. Introduction to Controls13. Project Management/Gantt Chart Dashboard14. Project Management II: Adding Decision Support15. Introduction to Dynamic Charts 16. Chart MinisPart IV: From user interface to presentation17. Getting Input from Users18. Storage Patterns for User Input19. Building for Sensitivity Analysis20. Perfecting the PresentationPart V: Advanced Dashboards with Databases21. Introduction to Microsoft Business Intelligence22. Data Model Capabilities of Excel 2013 23. Advanced Modeling with Slicers, Filters, and PivotTables24. Power Query and other useful tools

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.10.2015
• Zusatzinfo: XXVIII, 542 p. 633 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Office Programme ► Excel
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
• ISBN-10: 1-4302-4945-5 / 1430249455
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-4945-0 / 9781430249450