Dashboard Week Day 2 - Get Familiar with Power BI

by Andy Kriebel

First, some rules for Dashboard Week:

  • Each day they are given a new data set
  • They must work individually on the data prep and dashboard
  • Each afternoon, they will present their work; 10 min max per person
  • Each day they must write a short blog post about the project
  • Dashboards MUST be uploaded to and presented from Tableau Public; unless otherwise specified
  • Workflows, dashboards and blog posts MUST all be complete BEFORE presentations

This week wee hav 2 cohorts finishing at the same time, so they'll all be taking on the same projects.

On Monday, the teams learned about accessibility and created dashboards putting into practice what they learned.

Today's goal is to familiarize themselves with Power BI. They will have had little or no training in PBI, but I'm convinced they have the skills to make a quick transition. This will require them to learn PBI throughout the day. 😱

We have 4 mock data sets for 4 different industries: Customer Service, HR, IT Help Desk, SEO Analytics. Since there are 8 of them in each cohort, they must self-organize so that no data sets are used by more than 2 people.

From there, the project is simple. Build a great dashboard in PBI, most likely some sort of KPI dashboard will give them the best overall experience.

They must create a dashboard in Power BI, publish it to the Power BI gallery, make it public, then post on the Power BI Data Stories Gallery.

Simple!