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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.

What you will be able to answer

The mission director wants one screen for ward-level scheme progress, and right now it is a slide deck someone rebuilds by hand every month. What goes on it?

The two or three things the decision actually turns on — progress against target as a headline number with the comparison that gives it meaning, a ward map that filters the rest of the page, and the exceptions worth acting on — built on a live connection to the source, with the cleaning and reshaping done before anything is charted. What comes off matters as much as what goes on: metrics nobody acts on, and charts that mislead through a truncated axis. The test is whether a reader can answer their own next question by clicking, instead of asking for another slide.

Concepts
10
Selected clips
15m 44s
Employers use it
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One payment

₹99

The videos are free

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Concepts
10

Course outline

Learn from selected clips, concept by concept

Concept 1

Who reads a dashboard, and what they do next

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Concept 1 · Who reads a dashboard, and what they do next

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Concept 2

Picking a chart that answers the question

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After: what-a-dashboard-is-for

When a line chart obscures the truth on categorical data, and the point at which a pie chart stops working.

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Concept 3

Connecting to data and shaping it before it lands

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After: what-a-dashboard-is-for

Headers promoted, spaces trimmed and blanks replaced — all before the data ever loads.

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Concept 4

Building your first working visual

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After: getting-data-in, choosing-the-chart

Fields dragged onto axes and the aggregation switched between sum, count and average, with the chart responding live.

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Concept 5

Letting the reader ask their own question

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After: first-visual

One slicer selection changing every visual on the page at once.

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1m 23s kept
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Concept 6

Showing a single number so it means something

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After: first-visual

A headline number given a target to sit against, so it means something on its own.

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Concept 7

Putting a map on the dashboard

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After: first-visual

A custom boundary file loaded into a shape map, with location and measure fields bound to it.

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Concept 8

Arranging a page so the eye lands in the right place

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After: kpi-cards, filters-and-interactivity

What belongs at the top of the grid, and how text sizing carries the hierarchy.

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Concept 9

Labels, units and colour that survive a projector

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After: choosing-the-chart

Takeaway titles, one deliberate highlight colour, and everything else stripped out.

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2m 30s kept
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Concept 10

What to take off the dashboard

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After: layout-and-hierarchy, labels-and-readability

KPI cards repeated across sub-screens, and the sidebar metrics that inform no action.

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Selection criteria

  • Teaches one concept end to end, without needing the rest of the video
  • Speaker does this work, or teaches it to people who will
  • Transfers to Indian practice, or is marked where it does not
  • Audio and screen legible on a phone, on mobile data

What was rejected

11 candidates did not meet the course criteria.

  • 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
  • Is brand-styling or theme-building with no argument about readability; or is web-application accessibility generally rather than charts; or applies formatting with no reasoning at all
  • This video covers high-level tips (audience, context, bias) without discussing chart labels, units, number formatting, or color readability.
  • applies formatting with no reasoning at all
  • Is brand-styling or theme-building with no argument about readability
  • 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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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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