Course Outline

Overview of dashboards in IBM Cloud Pak for Data 
• Overview of Cloud Pak for Data 
• What is an analytics dashboard 
• Dashboards in Cloud Pak for Data 
• Services and their status 

Identify basic dashboard concepts 
• Projects: Containers of the dashboards 
• Add data to a project 
• Select a template 
• Dashboard edit mode 
• The data Usage property 

Customize and modify a dashboard 
• Access a previously created project and dashboard 
• Add additional columns to an existing chart 
• Modify the visualization type and its properties 
• Add multiple charts to an existing dashboard 
• Add custom calculations to dashboards 
• Explore dashboard filtering methods 

Dashboards in the Cognos Analytics Service 
• Service overview 
• Navigate Cognos Analytics dashboarding 
• Edit mode versus Preview mode 
• Edit a dashboard 

Create a basic dashboard 
• Create a new dashboard 
• Select a dashboard template and layout 
• Add data sources and visualizations 
• Save and view a Cognos Analytics dashboard 

Advanced dashboarding 
• Create a tabbed dashboard 
• Add data items and visualizations 
• Add objects using the Assistant 
• Add an active visualization 
• Customize and filter dashboard objects 
• Share the dashboard 

Create data modules 
• What is a data module? 
• Sources for data modules 
• Create relationship joins 
• Customize data modules using filters and calculations 
• Group data and create navigation paths 
• Share a data module 

Create explorations 
• Identify an exploration 
• Start exploring from a dashboard or story 
• Start exploring from the New menu 
• Explore from a data asset 
• Explore relationships in your data 
• The exploration process 

Introduction to reporting 
• Identify the basics of IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting 
• Examine the user interface 
• Create a report 
• Generate the report 

Create list reports 
• Identify list reports 
• Group data in a List 
• Sort data 
• Include list headers and footers 
• Aggregate data 

Create crosstab reports 
• Create a crosstab 
• Add measures to a crosstab 
• Data sources for crosstabs 
• Crosstab peers 

Present data graphically 
• Graphical visualization objects 
• Degree of difficulty 
• Drill through access 
• Custom visualizations 
• Custom color palettes