Building your first dashboard

A dashboard is where your data finally starts answering questions instead of just sitting in storage. This video walks you through building one from scratch, so you can see the full path from raw numbers to a clear visual you'd actually share in a meeting. Watching it once before you try it yourself means fewer false starts when you build your own.

Don't try to memorise every click — instead, notice the shape of the process. A few things worth paying attention to: how the presenter picks a dataset as the starting point, how they choose a visual type (bar, line, table) to match the question being asked, and how they drag fields onto the canvas to build a chart.

Also watch how they tidy things up at the end — adding a title, arranging visuals on the sheet, and using filters to narrow what's shown. These small finishing steps are what turn a rough draft into something a colleague can read at a glance.

Everything in the video assumes you have clean, connected data to work from — and that's exactly the part Intellova handles for you. Because your business data is already unified in one place, the dataset step is done before you even open Quick Suite, so you can skip straight to choosing visuals and answering real questions about your own numbers.