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Dashboard

Meaning in data science & analytics, with examples

/ˈdæʃbɔːrd/nounCore term

In data science & analytics, dashboard means: A screen that shows the most important charts and numbers about a business or system in one place, usually updated automatically.

In Turkish: gösterge paneli, dashboard, pano

How it is used

Built in tools such as Tableau, Power BI or Looker. You build, update, share and maintain a dashboard, and managers check it every day. People talk about a sales dashboard, an executive dashboard or a self-serve dashboard.

Example sentences

  1. The sales dashboard refreshes every morning at seven.

  2. Can we add a country filter to the marketing dashboard?

Common collocations

  • build a dashboard
  • sales dashboard
  • executive dashboard
  • dashboard refresh
  • self-serve dashboard
  • data visualizationThe practice of showing data as charts, graphs and maps so that people can see patterns, comparisons and changes more quickly than in a table.
  • KPIShort for key performance indicator: one of a small number of metrics that a company or team has chosen to measure progress towards its main goals.
  • metricA number that measures something specific about a product, business or process, such as daily sign-ups, average order value or page load time.
  • filterTo keep only the rows of data that meet certain conditions, such as orders from 2024 or users in Turkey, and leave out the rest.

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