Share insights with a dashboard#

See a screencast covering this section’s steps

Once you start collaborating, you’ll need a way to communicate insights.

Dashboards are a key tool in Dataiku for sharing insights such as charts, custom webapps, metrics, machine learning model results, etc. They are particularly well suited for situations where different users on the project may require different levels of permission.

View the project’s dashboard#

Let’s start by exploring what’s already been created in the project’s dashboard.

  1. From the project’s top navigation bar, go to the Dashboards page (or use the keyboard shortcut g + p).

  2. Click to open the Project dashboard.

  3. Observe the insights about the model found in the project’s Flow.

Dataiku screenshot of the View tab of a dashboard.

Create an insight on a dashboard#

Let’s add more information to this dashboard.

  1. Click Edit.

  2. Click the + to add a new page.

  3. Click + New Tile to add to the dashboard.

  4. Choose Chart from the available dashboard tiles.

  5. Open the dropdown menu, and choose job_postings_prepared_joined as the source dataset.

  6. Click Add.

Dataiku screenshot of the dialog for adding a chart insight to a dashboard.

Let’s create a chart insight showing the count of records by country and the target variable fraudulent.

  1. From the available columns, drag Count of records to the Y axis.

  2. Drag country to the X axis.

  3. Drag fraudulent to the color droplet field.

  4. Click the dropdown next to fraudulent, and change the binning mode to None, use raw values.

  5. Open the chart picker dropdown, and select Vertical stacked bars.

  6. Click Save (or use the keyboard shortcut Cmd/Ctrl + s).

  7. Click Back to dashboard. You’ll see your new chart there.

Dataiku screenshot of a chart insight.

Important

As reflected by the tag, the current insight is calculated on a sample of the data. Sampling ensures you can work interactively on even very large datasets. You can adjust this in the Sampling & Engine tab.

Now adjust the size of the insight on the dashboard page.

  1. Click on the chart tile, and drag the corners to a larger size (e.g. 9 x 6 squares).

  2. Click Save (or use the keyboard shortcut Cmd/Ctrl + s).

  3. Click View to see the current state of the dashboard.

Dataiku screenshot of the Edit tab of an insight.

Tip

Feel free to add more tile insights to this dashboard or learn more about dashboards in the Knowledge Base.