Overview
While organisations can collect a large amount of data about their operations, a continual challenge they face is extracting useful information from that data. Dashboards summarise key information using visualisations and interactive reports. Dashboards are therefore an important tool in supporting decision making in an organisation. In this unit, you will learn how to design dashboards. You will develop skills to condense and encapsulate the characteristics of data, making it easier to analyse trends to drive effective decision-making. You will also learn creative ways to present the insights and findings of data using data visualisation tools and techniques.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
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Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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- Explain the fundamentals of dashboard design and data visualisation
- Compare different dashboard design and data visualisation tools
- Explain the application of dashboard design and visualisation in summarising key information
- Identify the best practices in implementing dashboard design
- Design and implement a dashboard for a business case.
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is adopted by organisations, governments and individuals in many countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles. ACS members can use the tool MySFIA (https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html) to build a skills profile.
This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA 7 (https://www.sfia-online.org/en). The SFIA code is included:
Data Visualisation VISL
Analytics INAN
Business Analysis BUAN
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 20% | |||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 30% | |||||
| 3 - Project (applied) - 30% | |||||
| 4 - Presentation - 20% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 20% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Project (applied) - 30% | ||||||||||
| 4 - Presentation - 20% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Step by Step
Edition: 1 (2018)
Authors: Errin O'Connor
Microsoft Pres
ISBN: 9781509308033
Binding: eBook
The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios
Edition: 1 (2017)
Authors: Steve Wexler; Jeffery Shaffer; Andy Cotgreav
Wiley
ISBN: 1119282713
Binding: Hardcover
Additional Textbook Information
Copies can be purchased at the CQUni Bookshop here: http://bookshop.cqu.edu.au (search on the Unit code)
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Microsoft Power BI Desktop (Version: 2.53.4954.621 – 64 Bit)
- Tableau-Desktop-64bit-2019-4-1
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
a.morshed@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Data Visualisation: Introduction to Power BI, architecture and administration
Chapter
Books 1: Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Errin O’Connor
Book 2: The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios Steve Wexler; Jeffery Shaffer; Andy Cotgreave.
Chapter 1 and 2 Book 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Dashboard use: Visuals in Power BI and report development
Chapter
Books 1: Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Errin O’Connor
Book 2: The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios Steve Wexler; Jeffery Shaffer; Andy Cotgreave.
Chapter 3 and 4 Book 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Designs of Executives Sales Dashboards and Report generation using Power BI
Chapter
Books 1: Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Errin O’Connor
Book 2: The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios Steve Wexler; Jeffery Shaffer; Andy Cotgreave
Chapter 5 and URO Book 1 and 2
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Reports using MS EXCEL
Chapter
Books 1: Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Errin O’Connor
Book 2: The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios Steve Wexler; Jeffery Shaffer; Andy Cotgreave.
Chapter 6 Book 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Reports using MS EXCEL
Chapter
Books 1: Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Errin O’Connor
Chapter 6 Book 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Revise all previous lecture slides and tutorial work
Chapter
Revise all previous lecture slides and tutorial work
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Power BI reports from SharePoint on-Premises
Chapter
Books 1: Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Errin O’Connor
Chapter 8 Book 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Power BI reports from SQL
Chapter
Books 1: Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Errin O’Connor
Chapter 9 Book 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Power BI reports from SSAS Cube
Chapter
Books 1: Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Errin O’Connor
Chapter 10 Book 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Power BI Reports from Azure SQL
Chapter
Books 1: Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Errin O’Connor
Chapter 11 Book 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Power BI Reports from Oracle
Chapter
Books 1: Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Errin O’Connor
Chapter 12 Book 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Web Analytics Dashboard
Chapter
Book 2: The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios Steve Wexler; Jeffery Shaffer; Andy Cotgreave
Chapter 13 Book 2
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Case Study: Hospitality Dashboard for Hotel Management
Chapter
Book 2: The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios Steve Wexler; Jeffery Shaffer; Andy Cotgreave
Chapter 15 Book 2
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
No Final Exam for this Unit
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Contact information for Dr. Ahsan Morshed: Email: a.morshed@cqu.edu.au Office: 120 Spencer Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Melbourne Campus; P +61 3 96160418 | X 50418. Please submit questions about the unit through the 'Q&A' discussion forum in Moodle - that way, everyone can benefit from the questions and answers. If you have any individual queries, please email me and I'll try to get back to you within a day or so or you can meet with me by an appointment.
1 Online Quiz(zes)
This assessment is designed to reinforce the content taught in weekly. This assessment relates to learning outcomes 2 and 4. This assessment is an individual assessment and should be submitted in every week.
You will submit each week quizzes based on your weekly lecture. This will provide you with an opportunity to acquire knowledge on topics. This assessment contributes to 20% of total marks
12
Weekly
End of each week's tutorial session
Assessment Criteria
Assessment 1 will be marked based on the following criteria.
Weekly online 3 quizzes 1.66 marks
Total twelves quizzes 20 marks
- Compare different dashboard design and data visualisation tools
- Identify the best practices in implementing dashboard design
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Technology Competence
2 Practical Assessment
This assessment is designed to reinforce the content taught in Week 1 to Week 5. This assessment relates to learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3. This assessment is an individual assessment and should be submitted in week 6.
You will submit a work on Power BI on data manipulation exercises. This will provide you with an opportunity to learn data manipulation, processing using Power BI tool. Each week you will be presented with a data-related challenge, and will use computer tools to manipulate data to solve that challenge. This task will help to build your knowledge of data formats, and retrieval and analysis techniques. Power BI questions detail will be provided to you through Moodle in Week 2. This assessment contributes to 30% of the total marks.
Week 6 Tuesday (21 Apr 2020) 12:00 am AEST
Week 8 Tuesday (5 May 2020)
Within two weeks of submission
Assessment 2 will be marked based on the following criteria.
Submitted screen shot of all questions 10 marks
Analysis presented on the generated output 15 marks
Report nicely written 5 marks
Total 30 marks
- Explain the fundamentals of dashboard design and data visualisation
- Compare different dashboard design and data visualisation tools
- Explain the application of dashboard design and visualisation in summarising key information
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Social Innovation
3 Project (applied)
This assessment is based on a case study provided to you in teaching week 5. You are required to write a report of 2000 words. This is an individual assessment and contributes to Learning Outcome 1, 3, 4 and 5. This report will follow a standard business report format. You will be investigating how you might advise an organisation whose details are given
in a case study on data storage, retrieval, analysis and visualise mechanisms. You will also be developing an analytic dashboard using Power BI for the organisation. You will submit your assignment to Moodle. The assignment will be marked out of a total of 100 marks and forms 30% of the total marks for the unit.
Week 11 Tuesday (26 May 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
This assessment feedback will be released after certification date as this unit does not have an exam
Assessment 3 will marked based on the following criteria:
Report formatting (font, header and footer, table of content, numbering, referencing) 5 marks
Professional communication (correct spelling, grammar, formal business language used) 5 marks
Executive summary 5 marks
Report introduction 5 marks
Data Collection and Storage 5 marks
Data Action and Visualisation in 10 marks
Dashboard Design 70 marks
Conclusion and Recommendations 5 marks
Total 100 marks
- Explain the fundamentals of dashboard design and data visualisation
- Explain the application of dashboard design and visualisation in summarising key information
- Identify the best practices in implementing dashboard design
- Design and implement a dashboard for a business case.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Social Innovation
4 Presentation
This assessment contributes to the Learning Outcome 5. This is an individual presentation based on the assessment 3. All students are required to deliver the presentation. You are required to present the developed dashboard based on your business case study. The presentation will be held in Week 12.
For DISTANCE Students Only: Distance students will have a ZOOM presentation. The details of ZOOM session will be provided to all distance students in week 10. The unit coordinator will conduct this presentation.
Exam Week Monday (15 June 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
The feedback will be released after certification date as this unit does not have an exam
Assessment 4 will be marked based on the following criteria:
Stay on topic 3 marks
Fulfill requirements of topic 3 marks
Slide style 2 marks
Presentation style 6 marks
Valid information presented 6 marks
Total 20 marks
- Design and implement a dashboard for a business case.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
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