By: Andrew Leaper, Cory Dean, Demi-Jenna Aodan, and Lindsay Griffiths
A dashboard is a tool organizations use to graphically display important up-to-date information. The purpose of the interface is to allow people to see all relevant data for a business in a single glance, so it is therefore no larger than a single screen. Many companies incorporate business intelligence dashboards because they play an important role in planning, budgeting and forecasting and are used to monitor and analyze information.
A dashboard is a tool organizations use to graphically display important up-to-date information. The purpose of the interface is to allow people to see all relevant data for a business in a single glance, so it is therefore no larger than a single screen. Many companies incorporate business intelligence dashboards because they play an important role in planning, budgeting and forecasting and are used to monitor and analyze information.
Dashboards are used to display, compare and
analyze historical figures with budgets, forecasts and sales targets. Metrics,
such as revenues and EBITDA and key performance indicators used to measure how
successfully a company is achieving its goals are displayed on a dashboard.
Furthermore, a dashboard may be for a single department in a company and
therefore other key data points relevant to a specific process or enterprise
may be displayed.
Dashboards help with big data because they
are able to transform complex datasets into simple and comprehensible visuals.
They contain charts and graphs to quickly summarize important data and
information. This visual representation of data helps people to recognize links,
patterns, trends, and anomalies in order to help make informed decisions and understand
the present performance of a company. They also allow you to identify and
correct negative trends, improve efficiency, improve upon performed analysis
and help businesses determine goals and strategies as a whole (Andersen,
2013) .
It also saves a lot of time, as real-time data is displayed without generating
multiple reports. Overall, a dashboard is a snapshot of a company’s current performance.
Our dataset shows the carbon footprint of
many different countries from seven regions around the world. The data shown is
from the years 1990 to 2010. It divides their footprint into total amounts
contributed by Natural Gas, Coal, and Petroleum then per capita amounts for
each. An environmental nonprofit organization could be interested in transforming and synthesizing this dataset. Understanding this information would help a nonprofit organization know where to focus their work across the world and the reasons a region possibly has an increasing or decreasing carbon footprint. Our goal in analyzing this dataset is to
determine whether or not there is a correlation between the size of a country’s
carbon footprint and their population. To do this we will ask these 5
questions:
Questions
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Metrics
and Attributes
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1.
Which
region in 1990 began with the highest carbon footprint? Which region had the
lowest carbon footprint in 1990?
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Metrics: From Natural Gas, Petroleum, and
Coal
Attributes: Region, Years
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2.
Does the population growth rate
of the regions above match the growth rate of their carbon footprints?
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Metrics: From Natural Gas, Petroleum, and
Coal
Attributes: Region, Years
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3.
In 2010
which region contributed the most coal, natural gas, and petroleum?
Which
region is the biggest overall contributor?
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Metrics: Per Capita from Natural Gas,
Petroleum and Coal
Attributes: Regions, Years
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4.
Why is
Eurasia the only region to have a decreasing carbon footprint?
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Metrics: From Natural Gas, Petroleum,
Coal and their Per Capita Totals
Attributes: Region, Years
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5.
Why does
Africa have a steep increasing carbon footprint?
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Metrics: From Natural Gas, Petroleum,
Coal and their Per Capita Totals
Attributes: Region, Years
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