From the course: Data Analytics: Dashboards vs. Data Stories

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What is a dashboard?

What is a dashboard?

- Effectively communicating data is one of the most important skills a successful data analyst can possess. As technology evolves, so do the different options for displaying and analyzing data. After this lesson, you'll understand the basic concepts of one of the most common ways to display data, an interactive dashboard. A dashboard is a data visualization that allows users to view data in the form of charts and graphs, and highlights key pieces of information, in an out of glance view. Dashboards are used by all types of businesses to communicate data and understand performance within departments. Dashboards are typically created by data analysts and deployed to end users who can look through the visualizations to understand their data. End users have the ability to interpret the charts and graphs however they want, and are usually responsible for understanding the data being displayed on their own. Dashboards…

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