What you'll learn

Web dashboards are tremendously helpful; they give immediate access to timely data and are often displayed in a way that reveals new insights. In this course, Creating Interactive Dashboards with Google Charts, you'll learn how to use the free JavaScript framework called Google Charts to create powerful, interactive web dashboards. The dashboard you'll create will include several different types of interactivity, from detailed tooltips that contain secondary charts, to popups that show drill-down details, to filter controls that allow the user to control which data series are charted over which range. Beyond that, you will explore different layout approaches, including responsive design so the dashboard is usable from a phone or a tablet. By the time the course is complete, you'll know much more about what you need to create a powerful and attractive dashboard with lots of useful interactive features.