Dashboard Foundations
Start here
1 lesson
Module 1: Data and Maps Ready for Dashboards
8 lessons
- Track overview: Dashboard Foundations
- What a dashboard does: monitoring, decisions and trends on one screen
- Operational, tactical and strategic dashboards: matching purpose to audience
- ArcGIS Online content: hosted feature layers, web maps and how they connect
- Preparing data: field types, aliases, domains and date fields
- Building the web map: symbology, pop-ups and layer visibility for dashboards
- Hosted feature layer views: filtered data for each audience
- Project: prepare a water main break web map for a city operations dashboard
Module 2: Your First Dashboard
6 lessons
- Creating a dashboard: layout grid, header and theme
- Map element: web map, legend, layer list and basemap switcher
- Indicator element: counts, sums and reference values
- Arranging elements: stacking, tabs, sidebar and resizing
- Saving, sharing and filling in item details for a dashboard
- Project: build an incident monitoring dashboard with a map and three indicators
Visualizing Data
Module 3: Charts, Gauges, Lists and Tables
8 lessons
- Track overview: Visualizing Data
- Serial charts: categories, grouped values and split by field
- Serial charts over time: date binning, trend lines and guides
- Pie charts: when proportions help and when they mislead
- Gauges: progress toward targets with ranges and colors
- List element: formatted rows, sorting and maximum features
- Table element: feature tables and grouped tables for detailed records
- Project: service request performance dashboard for a customer service team
Module 4: Advanced Formatting and Data Expressions
7 lessons
- Conditional formatting: coloring indicators by thresholds
- Arcade advanced formatting for indicators, lists and tables
- Data expressions: combining and reshaping layers with Arcade FeatureSets
- Rich text, details and embedded content elements
- Statistics and filters: server-side aggregation and query limits
- Designing for readability: color, visual hierarchy and number formats for executives
- Project: executive KPI dashboard for a utility's outage response
Interactivity, Sharing and Operations
Module 5: Making Dashboards Interactive
8 lessons
- Track overview: Interactivity, Sharing and Operations
- Map actions: filtering elements when the map extent changes
- Selection actions: charts and lists that filter other elements
- Category selectors: filtering by field values with dropdowns and buttons
- Number and date selectors: time windows and value ranges
- URL parameters: opening a dashboard already filtered
- Refresh intervals and live data feeds for real-time monitoring
- Project: interactive traffic incident dashboard with selectors and linked charts
Module 6: Publishing and Operating Dashboards
6 lessons
- Sharing securely: groups, organization and public access
- Mobile layouts: designing dashboards for phones and field crews
- Embedding dashboards in ArcGIS Experience Builder and Hub sites
- Performance tuning: layer views, query limits and element count
- Maintaining dashboards: copying, swapping data sources and updating safely
- Project: emergency operations dashboard for storm response on desktop and mobile