IT Career Guides & Free Resources
Expert roadmaps, tutorials, salary guides and interview prep across Data Science, Generative AI, Python, Cloud & Analytics — written by GloryTecks trainers in Hyderabad.
All articles
Dashboard Design Principles for Data Analysts
Dashboard design principles for data analysts: designing for one audience and a few questions, fitting on one screen, giving every number context, choosing charts that encode values accurately, arranging content in reading order, and using colour sparingly and accessibly, with a script that checks palette contrast.
Power BI Dashboard Design: A Practical Guide
Designing Power BI reports and dashboards: the difference between the two in the Power BI service, planning for the audience, laying out a page, choosing visuals and formatting numbers the way Microsoft recommends, interactions and navigation, accessibility, performance, and a checklist to review any page.
Building a Finance Dashboard in Power BI
A Power BI finance dashboard built on Microsoft's Financial Sample workbook: two data traps to fix on import, core measures for sales, profit, margin and discount rate, reconciling totals before any visual, a profit bridge, a segment that loses money, what discounts do to margin, and a layout for finance users.
Building a Sales Dashboard: A Hands-On Project
A hands-on sales dashboard project built on a real online retailer's 541,909 transaction lines: agreeing the questions and KPIs, removing cancellations, postage and fees, computing monthly revenue, orders and average order value, finding the breakdowns that matter, and laying it out so key numbers are read first.
Building a Sales Dashboard in Power BI from Scratch
A Power BI sales dashboard built from scratch on the Chinook sample database: a star schema and date table, core DAX measures for revenue, orders, customers, order value and year-over-year change, the exact values each should return, a sales rep comparison that ranks differently by total and per customer, and a layout.
Building Your First Interactive Dashboard
A first interactive dashboard, built step by step on real sales data: preparing one tidy table, adding filters that recalculate every KPI, showing the trend, and then testing the interactions automatically, the step most beginners skip, with notes on doing the same in Power BI, Tableau or Looker Studio.