Grocery Sales (Advanced)

From birst

Welcome to the Grocery Sales (Advanced) tutorial. This tutorial describes how to use Birst to upload data, design a dimensional model for the data, and analyze the data, using the fictitious Grocery Sales reporting data for all examples.

What You Will Learn

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a new blank space of type Advanced based on retail sales data contained in an Excel file with five spreadsheets. You will learn how to define the grain of a data source and its column properties. You will also learn how to analyze the processed data, save reports and build dashboards. The tutorial further teaches how to share your work with other users.

Requirements

The tutorial requires the Grocery Sales Excel file. Click here to download it.

Lessons

This tutorial is divided into ten lessons. Each lesson requires completion of all preceeding lessons.

• Tutorial scenario
• Lesson 1: Create a space of type Advanced
• Lesson 2: Upload data
• Lesson 3: Define data source grain
• Lesson 4: Define column properties
• Lesson 5: Process data
• Lesson 6: Create a simple report
• Lesson 7: Change column options
• Lesson 8: Change chart options
• Lesson 9: Create a dashboard
• Lesson 10: Share the space