decisions, decisions: dashboards and reports coursera weekly challenge 1 answers
Test your knowledge: Data visualizations and dashboards
1. A business intelligence professional wants to answer ongoing business questions, and these answers are likely to change over time. Therefore, they choose to use dynamic visualizations in their dashboard. In this situation, what is the primary benefit of dynamic visualizations?
- They are static.
- They are printed.
- They are constant.
- They are interactive.
2. What is the primary goal of the stories told by dashboards?
- To display raw data as comprehensively as possible
- To provide important information about what’s currently happening
- To gather and present all available data about a single metric
- To provide important information about what previously happened
3. Who typically uses business intelligence tools in order to make informed decisions?
- Business intelligence professionals
- Customers
- Data governance professionals
- Stakeholders
Test your knowledge: Planning a dashboard
4. What is the term for a simple draft of a visualization that is used when planning a dashboard?
- Gauge chart
- Low-fidelity mockup
- Data model
- Summary table
5. Fill in the blank: If a business intelligence professional creates a dashboard without considering the _____, there is likely to be an audience problem.
- Users
- Hardware
- Software
- Time period
6. A business intelligence team collects and prepares data for a presentation to stakeholders. Then, they consider available visualization tools, as well as the team’s user interfaces and workstreams. In this situation, what is the primary purpose of the visualization tools?
- To represent and communicate data insights
- To critique business needs
- To confirm that the data is compatible
- To evaluate dashboard progress
Weekly challenge 1
7. Which of the following statements correctly describe data analytics and business intelligence visualizations? Select all that apply.
- Stakeholders use the insights from business intelligence visualizations to make decisions both now and in the future.
- Stakeholders use the insights from data analytics visualizations to make a single business decision.
- Stakeholders use the insights from data analytics visualizations to make decisions both now and in the future.
- Stakeholders use the insights from business intelligence visualizations to make a single business decision.
8. Fill in the blank: Business intelligence professionals constantly improve their dashboards in order to enable users to _____ on their own.
- Build dashboards
- Interpret data
- Troubleshoot data transfer
- Maintain datasets
Shuffle Q/A 1
9. At what point in the dashboard-iteration process do business intelligence professionals create low-fidelity mockups?
- During the planning and evaluation stages
- During data transfer
- During the visualization design process
- During data analysis
10. A dashboard is running slowly because it tracks and features more data than necessary. What type of problem is occuring?
- Audience problem
- Visualization problem
- Data problem
- Tool problem
