Audience
Users who need to create and develop dashboards that will provide meaningful insights into their organizations data. Users will gain knowledge on a variety of different visualizations and have the opportunity to build the required interactions between Tabs and charts on their dashboard.
Prerequisites
None, however it would be beneficial to be familiar with a web browser and comfortable with using laptops/PC’s and a mouse.
Duration
1 day.
Course Objectives
The objectives of this course are:
- To obtain an overview of dashboard best practice
- To build a dashboard from scratch
- To explore and interact with data and become familiar with the dashboard interface
- To utilise visualizations and build interaction to obtain insights into the data available
- To be able to add various data sources and effectively explore the data
- To build a Story and add narratives to their story based on data content
Course Content
Discuss and provide an overview of IBM Cognos Dashboards
Review best practice techniques
Decide what is it that you wish to highlight and consider the options available for this
Overview of the Dashboard Interface
Making available data by using Data sources
Building a dashboard from scratch and editing an existing dashboard
Overview of the different Layouts and Visualizations
Understanding “Pins”
Carrying out exploration from a dashboard
Overview of a Story and demo of creating a story
Course Review and Feedback, including recap and Q/A session