Overview

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Build advanced dashboard skills that help you create interactive tools for monitoring business performance and supporting better decisions. In this course, you’ll develop practical experience used in roles such as business intelligence analyst, data analyst, reporting analyst, analytics consultant, and operations analyst. You’ll work on designing interactive dashboards, tracking KPIs and business metrics, applying visual design principles, and creating guided analytical paths that help users explore data more effectively. This is a non-traditional, skill-based learning experience organized around real workplace tasks instead of a fixed lecture sequence. It’s designed to reflect responsibilities you may see in job descriptions, from building decision support tools and automating calculations to troubleshooting data discrepancies and improving dashboard performance. You can personalize your path based on what you already know, focus on the skills you need most, and skip content when it’s not necessary. The course curates high-quality lessons from expert instructors, selecting the strongest content for each skill so you can build practical, career-relevant dashboard development experience. By the end, you’ll be able to design and deploy interactive dashboards, implement filters and other interactive features in BI tools, optimize queries and scripts for performance, translate business logic into automated calculations and alerts, and investigate KPI changes by segmenting and comparing data across relevant business dimensions. This course is a strong fit if you already have experience with data analysis, dashboards, BI tools, or writing basic queries.

Syllabus

Start Here: Get Oriented and Check Your Skills

Start here to learn how this skill-based course works and find your recommended starting point. You’ll take a short, ungraded diagnostic to check your current skills, then decide whether to go directly to the graded skill assessments or review targeted learning content first.

Job Task 1: Build and improve an interactive dashboard

Use this module to build the skills for the job task Build and improve an interactive dashboard. You’ll learn how to improve dashboard responsiveness, apply visual design principles, and use interactive features to support guided data exploration. Review the lessons that match the skills you want to strengthen before completing the related graded assessment.

Job Task 2: Monitor and diagnose dashboard performance

Use this module to build the skills for the job task Monitor and diagnose dashboard performance. You’ll learn how to validate dashboard logic, investigate data discrepancies, define KPI monitoring workflows, and diagnose performance changes using operational data. Review the lessons that match the skills you want to strengthen before completing the related graded assessment.

Wrap Up: Review Your Skill Achievement and Choose Your Next Path

Review the skills you practiced and demonstrated in this course, then prepare to describe them in career-relevant ways. You’ll also explore recommended skill paths that can help you continue building related job-ready skills.