How To Create Sisense Boards

       

Summary

Sisense Dashboards are developed as visual representations of data to tell a story. These dashboards are tailored to simplify complex data in easy-to-understand ways so that users can easily interpret vital information, as well as discover patterns, trends, and anomalies that are occurring in the business. 

By definition, Sisense is an agile business intelligence solution that provides users with advanced tools to support and manage information for company data with analytics, visuals, and reporting.

This tool is the most effective and efficient tool to use to provide informative data modeling.

Figure 1: Sisence

   

 

Best Practices for Creating Dashboards

When designing a user dashboard, following these best practices will allow for the best experience and data modeling: 

• User dashboards should provide relevant information in about 5 seconds.
• Display the most significant insights at thetop of the dashboard,trends in themiddle, and granular details at the bottom. 
• Keep at a minimum of between 5 to 9 visualizations. 
• Select the appropriate type of data visualization according to itspurpose. 
• Avoid Wide/Long pivot tables.

 

Features of the Sisense Dashboard 

Upon accessing the Sisense Dashboard, the user's first view will be viewed as the Dashboard.

On the left side of the screen, a list of folders and dashboards are displayed for users to choose from. In the middle of the screen, the dashboard is displayed that provides analytical information set by the users. On the right side of the screen, filters are provided to allow users to alter the information given or shown on the dashboard. 

 

How to Create a Sisense Dashboard 

Within creating a new dashboard, users will have the ability to create widgets from scratch. After importing data into Sisense, the next step is to create a dashboard that viewers can interact with. Dashboard designers can create dashboards from the Analytics page where existing dashboards are displayed or users have the choice to conduct their own dashboard using the “Create” option.    Below is a list of directions to support users in conducting new dashboards: