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Building Interactive Dashboards in Microsoft 365 Excel

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803237299
Pages 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Michael Olafusi Michael Olafusi
Profile icon Michael Olafusi

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface Part 1 – Dashboards and Reports in Modern Excel
Chapter 1: Dashboards, Reports, and M365 Excel Chapter 2: Common Dashboards in Lsarge Companies Part 2 – Keeping Your Eyes on Automation
Chapter 3: The Importance of Connecting Directly to the Primary Data Sources Chapter 4: Power Query: the Ultimate Data Transformation Tool Chapter 5: PivotTable and Power Pivot Chapter 6: Must-Know Legacy Excel Functions Chapter 7: Dynamic Array Functions and Lambda Functions Part 3 – Getting the Visualization Right
Chapter 8: Getting Comfortable with the 19 Excel Charts Chapter 9: Non-Chart Visuals Chapter 10: Setting Up the Dashboard's Data Model Chapter 11: Perfecting the Dashboard Chapter 12: Best Practices for Real-World Dashboard Building Index Other Books You May Enjoy

XY (scatter) chart

The XY (scatter) chart, which we will begin to refer to as a scatter chart, is a relationship plot chart. It plots the relationship between two variables: the independent (X) variable and the dependent (Y) variable. A scatter chart is more popular in the research and academic space than in the business domain because most business users are looking for the performance of known metrics rather than trying to find the relationship between two metrics. So, you have to be careful when using this chart in the business domain: you should be able to confirm that the report users don’t have a well-established interpretation of the relationship between the metrics and that there is business value in showing how the two metrics are related.

One more important thing to note when using a scatter chart is that it is a values-only chart, meaning the horizontal axis is not used to display labels but numerical values. You should never use a scatter chart to plot values...

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