The main task of dashboards is to provide the insights. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), as the name suggests, help us to know how a business is doing or how is a specific process doing. This usually involves comparing current values or historical trends against a target value.
I have two methods to point you towards the blogs, for building KPI dashboards:
1. Tableau provides dynamic shapes to show good news/challenges. The upward pointing green triangle is shown for any good news/success whereas the downward pointing red arrow reflects failure or a lower result from the last one.
It’s very simple to generate these in Tableau and the steps are explained on the website:
http://www.thedataschool.co.uk/emily-chen/building-kpi-dashboards-with-shapes/
2. This method involves making two views – one showing the current values, the other showing the historic trend (in this case, revenue). This post explains how to align these two views together or how to deal with them by interlinking the two separate sheets on a dashboard.
https://www.interworks.com/sites/default/files/RobertKPI1.png
This is explained on the following website:
Personally, I liked both. It totally depends on which one you choose to present your research and insights.
References:
http://www.thedataschool.co.uk/emily-chen/building-kpi-dashboards-with-shapes/