All language subtitles for 5. Exercise 09

It's time now for us to do exercise nine and this exercise a little bit different to the other exercises

in that there is no right or wrong answer, so I don't have an answer to show you because there are

so many different ways that you can build a dashboard.

I'm just going to leave it to you to have an experiment and a play around.

Now, the dashboard that we created during the course was a reasonably complex one, using calculations.

If you don't feel confident enough, or maybe you don't even have the time to create a dashboard with

lots of complex calculations.

You can just create a very simple dashboard using pivot tables and pivot charts.

So it might be that you want to approach it in that way.

So what I'm doing here is I'm giving you a starting point.

So we have our data, it's in a table and we can go now and create different pivot tables, rearrange

them in different ways and then create different pivot charts to represent different metrics.

So maybe if you don't want to go down the calculations route, maybe create three or four or maybe even

five different pivot charts based off of this pivot data.

Maybe add some slices and connect those slices to the pivot charts.

And remember, you can make your life a lot easier by copying the worksheet and simply rearranging the

pivot table fields instead of creating a pivot table from scratch each time.

Also, something to think about is your dashboard design, so you're going to want to create a new worksheet

and call it dashboard and then kind of plots out or plan where you want your pivot chance to go and

things like the overall color scheme, whether you want to add formatting or icons or pictures, things

like that.

So this exercise is really a good opportunity for you to just take a dataset, create lots of different

pivot tables and pivot charts, analyze your data in different ways and then assemble a dashboard.

It might be that you want to add some headline statistics at the top by linking to different cells.

That's a fairly straightforward calculation to do.

But really, I'm just going to leave this exercise open for you to have a play around.

So I'm going to leave this with you.

Good luck.

I hope you create an absolutely amazing dashboard.