H2 – Dashboards, Stories and Explorations

In-depth training in building and designing dashboards, stories and explorations. Topics include visualizations, filters, layout, calculations, interactions and typical self-service analytics scenarios.

Chapters and lessons

H2-01 Introduction

• H2-01-1 Creating a simple dashboard
• H2-01-2 Creating dashboards faster with the assistant
• H2-01-3 Narrative views
• H2-01-4 Bookmarks
• H2-01-5 Uploading the Excel file "Demodaten_2025_Europa.xlsx" (optional)

H2-02 Visualizations

• H2-02-1 Introduction to visualizations
• H2-02-2 Bar and column charts
• H2-02-3 Line and column charts
• H2-02-4 Pie charts
• H2-02-5 Combined line and column charts
• H2-02-6 Infographics with new visualizations
• H2-02-7 Crosstabs
• H2-02-8 Maps
• H2-02-9 Custom visualizations: IBCS chart example

H2-03 Widgets and navigation

• H2-03-1 Widgets: text, icons and images
• H2-03-2 Navigation paths
• H2-03-3 Nested dashboards
• H2-03-4 Widget sets
• H2-03-5 Responsive dashboard layout
• H2-03-6 Dashboard views
• H2-03-7 Author comments and explanatory dashboard elements
• H2-03-8 Comments in dashboards

H2-04 Filters

• H2-04-1 Filters
• H2-04-2 Filters on data sources
• H2-04-3 Widget levels
• H2-04-4 Filtering by fields and measures
• H2-04-5 Cascading filters
• H2-04-6 Selection router and parameters: display and use values

H2-05 Sorting

• H2-05-1 Sorting by measures
• H2-05-2 Custom sorting
• H2-05-3 Sorting in waterfall charts
• H2-05-4 Top-X bubble chart

H2-06 Calculations

• H2-06-1 Forecasts, insights and data groups
• H2-06-2 Simple calculations
• H2-06-3 Calculations using the expression editor
• H2-06-4 Advanced calculations and functions

H2-07 Stories

• H2-07-1 Story demonstration
• H2-07-2 Creating a story from a dashboard and timeline
• H2-07-3 Stories based on existing visualizations and data points

H2-08 Explorations

• H2-08-1 AI-assisted data analysis
• H2-08-2 Comparison analysis
• H2-08-3 Sunburst analysis, drivers and decision tree

H2-09 Appendix and tips

• H2-09-1 Dashboard output as PDF and Excel export
• H2-09-2 Creating a simple data module
• H2-09-3 Dashboard templates
• H2-09-4 Drill-through connections
• H2-09-5 Local caching option