Data visualisation & dashboards
Building the dashboard a municipal commissioner or mission director actually opens — ward-level scheme progress, service indicators, project status — so a decision gets made from it rather than a slide deck being assembled by hand every month.
Needed across GIS / Urban-Data Analytics Lead, Planner / Manager — Urban-Mission SPV & PMU (AMRUT 2.0, CITIIS 2.0)
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Course outline
Learn from selected clips, concept by concept
Concept 1
Who reads a dashboard, and what they do next
12 Dashboard design tips for better data visualization
Geckoboard · English · beginner
Why this clip: This section explains how identifying the target audience and their decision-making needs determines which metrics to display.
How to Build Great Dashboards (5 Principles)
Ruben Ugarte · English · intermediate
Why this clip: Ruben explains how dashboards cater to different audiences by pairing high-level executive summaries with deep-dive analysis options.
Concept 2
Picking a chart that answers the question
After: what-a-dashboard-is-for
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Concept 3
Connecting to data and shaping it before it lands
After: what-a-dashboard-is-for
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Concept 4
Building your first working visual
After: getting-data-in, choosing-the-chart
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Concept 5
Letting the reader ask their own question
After: first-visual
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Concept 6
Showing a single number so it means something
After: first-visual
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Concept 7
Putting a map on the dashboard
After: first-visual
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Concept 8
Arranging a page so the eye lands in the right place
After: kpi-cards, filters-and-interactivity
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Concept 9
Labels, units and colour that survive a projector
After: choosing-the-chart
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Concept 10
What to take off the dashboard
After: layout-and-hierarchy, labels-and-readability
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What was rejected
10 candidates did not meet the course criteria.
- The video focuses on general dashboard design principles rather than explicitly contrasting dashboards with reports or slide decks.
- Focuses on Edward Tufte's data visualization rules rather than defining specific user personas or decision workflows.
- imports a perfectly clean sample file with no shaping step
- Adds controls without demonstrating what they change
- plots pins with no data driving colour or size
- Is graphic-design or slide-deck layout with no dashboard
- arranges visuals with no stated reasoning
- This video only covers basic Excel mechanics for adding/removing a chart title and does not address design principles, unit labels, or projection/color legibility.
- Is brand-styling or theme-building
- generic design opinion with no dashboard examined
Where this skill is used
GIS / Urban-Data Analytics Lead
Spatial-data and analytics roles — building GIS systems, remote-sensing pipelines, urban dashboards, and data products for planning clients, authorities, and tech/geospatial firms. Strong demand where planning meets data. Specialisation tags: Urban, Regional, Environmental (cross-cutting).
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Explore path →Planner / Manager — Urban-Mission SPV & PMU (AMRUT 2.0, CITIIS 2.0)
Contract/deputation roles in Special Purpose Vehicles and Project Management Units running current national urban missions — AMRUT 2.0, CITIIS 2.0, circular-economy, infrastructure, GIS/data, and scheme implementation. Large volume of openings, but mostly fixed-term consultancy-style contracts. Specialisation tags: Urban, Infrastructure, Housing.
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