Example of creating a dashboard
Use Minitab dashboards to monitor and analyze critical metrics through interactive
charts, graphs, and other visualizations, to provide a high-level overview of important
metrics.
Create assets for your dashboard
This example uses the prepped data set from the Example of prepping data. Complete the following steps to create a dashboard that you can quickly monitor key metrics.
Follow these steps to create a U Chart.
- From Minitab Solution Center Data Prep, select .
- From the left pane, open Assets.
- Under Process Quality, select U Chart.
- Open the data set that contains the data for the asset.
- In Variable, enter form defects.
- In Subgroup size, enter 1.
- Select OK.
Follow these steps to create a Nonnormal Capability.
- Under Process Quality, select Normal Capability.
- Open the data set that contains the data for the asset.
- In Data column, enter safety_rating.
- In Subgroup size, enter 1.
- In Upper spec, enter 90.
- Select Transform. Select Box-Cox transformation.
- Select OK in each dialog.
Rearrange assets
You can arrange the assets on the dashboard canvas to find the best way to display your visualizations. Your dashboard can include multiple pages.
Sync data after a new data prep step
In the previous step, we created a dashboard to monitor key metrics. The improvement team decided that some of the safety ratings may be incorrect, so they want to apply a filter to remove safety ratings that are less than 25.
- From the Data Connections pane, select Edit to add the data prep step in the Data Center.
- Select the safety_rating column and open Data Prep Options.
- Select Filter Rows and enter safety_rating, greater than or equal to, 25, then select OK.
- To sync the data connection, do one of the following:
- From the Data Center, use the dropdown menu to save changes or discard changes to resync the data connection.
- Select the Refresh icon to update the data
from the Dashboard.
