Excel Dashboard Celebrates Indian Cricket Worldcup Win
Want to see how you can use a tool you already own to create a compelling business dashboard? Download this file of an Excel Dashboard to see how Microsoft Excel can provide interactivity and out-of-the-box design capabilities for a complete modern business intelligence dashboard. First, have a look a the screenshot:
Now download the excel worksheet here:
Note that it’s an XLSM file. You’ll need to view it with Excel 2007 or Excel 2010. Be sure to allow the macros to turn on the full interactivity.
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How is this Dashboard constructed?
This dashboard was one of the most difficult ones I built, because I did not know what to put in the dashboard. I know that the dashboard should reflect our team’s hardwork, journey, outstanding performances but I had no clue which format & layout exposed these qualities. So I took a lot of time drawing up sketches of possible dashboards before hitting on the present layout. Once I came-up with the layout, the actual dashboard took me about 4 hours to make (and may be another 4 for polish).
Here are some of the techniques used in the dashboard:
The dashboard is divided in to 3 areas – Highlights, our journey to the victory and best performances.
Highlights: This section shows overall summary of all the 9 matches India have played. It shows some interesting statistics, how much our top players contributed to our victory etc.
Techniques used: All parts of this are made with text boxes and simple text formulas.
Our Journey to victory: This was the most time consuming & intense part of the dashboard as I made this portion interactive. The left side shows all the matches we have played by date and the results. When you select a particular match, the right side portion shows a match summary. This includes match venue, result, toss details, India’s top 3 batsmen, top 3 bowlers, photos of India’s best batting & bowling performers, oppositions score, best batsman, bowler, their stats. It also shows the country flags etc.
Techniques used: The click to select as described in on-demand charts article, conditional formatting, picture links, more picture links, LARGE formula.
The most difficult part of this was to get a moving arrow that would change its position based on which match is selected. I did this with picture links, offset formula and a dynamic named range. (Examine the named range movingArrow).
Best performances (top 10): In this area, I showed the best batting, bowling, catching, partnership performances for all the matches in World-cup (not just India’s matches).
Techniques used: All the charts are made in Excel 2010 using solid bar conditional formatting & picture link based techniques. Later, I just copied them and pasted as images so that they look same in Excel 2007 also.
Colors & Fonts:
I choose the blue color as it is team India’s jersey color. I used orange to contrast the best performances.
The fonts are Bookman Old Style & Meriyo UI.
