9 Dec 2016

PowerBI Dashboard for Messi´s worldrecord of 91 goals in one year


#58 PowerBI Dashboard for Messi´s worldrecord of 91 goals in one year

4/1/2021:
Today I made a new live Messi Goal Tracker dashboard, see:


NB: 
- This post is not about an Excel I made (but about a Microsoft Power BI dashboard I made, which is (almost) a copy of an Excel workbook I blogged about earlier), so I tagged it with the 'More' category.

Once I made an Excel with a PowerView dashboard for Messi's worldrecord of #goals in one year (91), see:

http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2015/08/dashboard-for-messis-worldrecord-of-91.html

In this post, I made a new version of this dashboard, but now in Microsoft PowerBI, and also with some improvements, e.g. the treemap-view for all matches in which Messi scored, aggregated by the team and competition where he made his goals. NB: For more info about the Treemap-chart, see my previous post:

http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com/2016/07/treemap-and-sunburst-excel2016-charts.html

See fig.1 for the end-result, in PowerBI Desktop.



Fig.1 Messi-Dashboard in PowerBI Desktop

The nice thing of PowerBI-dashboards is that they are suited for any device, so apart from PC also smartphone or tablet, see fig.2, in PowerBI-online (cloud-service), so this is a site for sharing your dashboards, for mine, see:

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiOWYxMTVkNTUtZjJjMy00NTcyLWJlMzctNmNlYzE5ZmQyYjM1IiwidCI6ImI3OWIyMzE3LTM0ZGQtNDNlNS05MWEyLWNkNjZkM2FlMWYwYiIsImMiOjh9

This URL Power BI gave me after choosing menu-option: "File > Publish to web", which should make the dashboard 'public', see:
https://michielquakernaat.com/2016/02/03/want-to-share-your-power-bi-report-to-the-world-yes-we-can/

Or you can use this URL: https://app.powerbi.com/groups/me/dashboards/729276ac-365c-4473-9d42-1969ddd16dac

There is also a Power BI Community page which has a 'Data Stories Gallery', and I posted my 'Messi-dashboard' here:
http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Data-Stories-Gallery/Messi-s-worldrecord-of-total-goals-in-1-year-91-goals-in-2012/m-p/100642#M485

And here I found another nice Messi-dashboard:
http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Data-Stories-Gallery/Incredible-Lionel-Messi/m-p/82225/highlight/false#M386

So this is similar to this page of the Tableau-community:
https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery



Fig.2: Messi-Dashboard in PowerBI (online) on PC and smartphone


2 Nice build-in features of Power BI are:
- Quick Insight in the dataset (source of dashboard), which generates several 'data-profile' charts, see fig.2b
- Natural language Q&A, user types his question (in English), using some 'keywords' like 'by' to specify the 'slice-and-dice' dimensions, and Power BI answers (with charts) , see fig.2c.

For more details about these features (and Power BI in general), see:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3088958/data-analytics/free-data-visualization-with-microsoft-power-bi-your-step-by-step-guide-with-video.html



Fig.2b: Quick Insight



Fig.2c: Natural language Q&A

As said in my previous blog-post, my Messi-dashboard was inspired by one made with BI/Dashboard-tool Tableau  (for which PowerBI was Microsofts answer/alternative), see fig.3 for the this version.


Fig.3: original Messi-dashboard in (free trial version of ) Tableau

To see another really nice example of a PowerBI-report with the results of the Spanish soccer League made by a friend, see fig.4 and his site: http://Ligasantanderbi.azurewebsites.net



Fig.4: PowerBI (with Azure) example with results Spanish soccer League

So with Power BI you can make really nice dashboards, and with the frequent updates/releases of Power BI, much more frequent than that of MS Office (Excel), one could wonder if for 'self-service BI' Power BI is the way to go (and not Excel with its 'Power-plugins' like Power View, Power Map etc.) Some say it is, see e.g.:

http://www.cio.com/article/2979725/enterprise-software/why-power-bi-is-the-future-of-excel.html

while others say you can/should use the 'pack' 'Power BI + Exel', see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmTedSuKers

And what do you think? Comments are welcome (but please not anonymously, because I get a lot of 'fake' comments (publicity) from anonymous users, so I don't read anonymous comments.

Note 12/12/2016:
Although I haven't got any comments on this post (yet), apparently the 'editor' of The #PowerBI Daily (on www.paper.li), liked this post, because he published it here today, see fig.5.
NB: Paper.li is a site to create your own (virtual) newspaper of tweets of persons you follow, for more info, see:
http://www.takeflyte.com/flyte/2010/12/what-is-paper-li-a-newspaper-of-tweets.html

Fig.5: Blog-post referenced on  The #PowerBI Daily (on www.paper.li) 



References

-1: Good explanation of what is "Business Intelligence (BI): Multidimensional Analysis"
https://youtu.be/IhFkNmVmwn4

-2: A 'BI-solution' actually consists of 2 components: a Data Warehouse (DW), the (invisible) back-room ('the database') and BI, the (visual) front-room (the dashboard), where DW is normally about 80% of the solution, and BI 20 %, so it is the top of the ice-berg, as described here:
https://www.datamart.de/competence/business-intelligence-data-warehouse/Seiten/default.aspx


 Downloads
Pbix-file, so PowerBI-report:

https://goo.gl/Ex4XbB






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