Ingredients for Building Excel Dashboards

Those of you interested in Excel Dashboards should head over to the main Dashboard Spy site for this article on the Ingredients for Building Excel Dashboards.  There is some very good advice such as the suggestion to use a different color pallete for excel dashboarding. Thanks to Andreas FLockermann from BonaVista Systems for submitting his list of ingredients for successful excel dashboards.

Excel Color Pallete for Dashboards

This long-time Dashboard Spy at MicroCharts.net built a nice web traffic analysis dashboard complete with sparklines and has sent along some project background. Here are some screenshots, but you should definitely read the full post on the Excel Dashboarding Ingredients over at The Dashboard Spy.

Excel Dashboard with Sparkline

Sparkline Dashboards built with Excel

Tags: Sparkline Dashboard, Excel Sparklines, Excel Dashboard, Microcharts

3 thoughts on “Ingredients for Building Excel Dashboards

  1. Hi

    Thank for the very good articles on this subject. I would like to mention the SQL Drill Add-in (http://www.sqldrill.com). It is an alternative to MS Query and is a very useful tool for building dashboards in Excel.
    Thanks and have a nice weekend.
    Al

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