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  • 1.  Dashboard for metrics

    Posted 01-28-2025 11:09

    Good morning,

    I am interested in creating a dashboard to show different metrics for a group of shared resource facilities that I manage.  I am looking for direction on how to start?  Is there software that currently exists for this type of thing?  We use iLab so ideally it could pull data from there as well.  

    Thank you for any insight!



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    Shawn Kalloway
    Program Manager- Cancer Center Shared Resources
    Medical College of Wisconsin
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  • 2.  RE: Dashboard for metrics

    Posted 01-28-2025 17:14

    Hi Shawn,

     

    We use PowerBI to visualize metrics for my Core. It uses a combination of ilab data as well as financial data from our institution's financial system.

    Happy to discuss further over a call if you like.

    There will also be a great session/workshop on this topic at the annual meeting on Monday "Business Intelligence Tools and Core Data: Practical Workshop" – hope you can make it!

     

    Karolien

     






  • 3.  RE: Dashboard for metrics

    Posted 01-29-2025 07:21

    We have used PowerBI as well for reporting with the help of someone in our finance office who knows how to use the tool. If your institution doesn't offer it college-wide as part of your Microsoft license it is possible for your IT group to upgrade the license for a few individuals that need to use the software at a minimal cost.



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    Brian Pelowski
    Associate Dean for Research Operations & Infrastructure
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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  • 4.  RE: Dashboard for metrics

    Posted 01-29-2025 09:32

    Thank you for the information!  I will be reaching out to our IT department.

    Best,

    Shawn



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    Shawn Kalloway
    Program Manager- Cancer Center Shared Resources
    Medical College of Wisconsin
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  • 5.  RE: Dashboard for metrics

    Posted 01-30-2025 00:44

    Hi, 

    We used Tableau, but are now using PowerBI. I think PowerBI is what we will stick with going forward. It's pretty helpful.



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    Andy Chitty
    Director, University Shared Resources
    Oregon Health & Science University
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  • 6.  RE: Dashboard for metrics

    Posted 01-29-2025 09:36

    We are in the process of setting up a PowerBI dashboard as well. The iLab dowload is in CSV format, which lends itself well to dashboard building.



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    Natasha Nikolaidis
    Associate Director of Operations
    Purdue University
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  • 7.  RE: Dashboard for metrics

    Posted 01-29-2025 14:04

    Hi Shawn,

    At UNC we use Tableau to pull our iLab and financial information into dashboards.

    Meghan



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    Meghan Kraft
    Interim Director of Research Core Strategy
    University of North Carolina
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  • 8.  RE: Dashboard for metrics

    Posted 01-30-2025 11:01
    The key for us making dashboards work is having an automated method of getting the data into a usable database. For NU, we transfer data from our billing system (NUcore) to the NU Datamart nightly. We have excellent, ongoing, support from IT folks to make this happen. We can then pull using Cognos, Tableau, or in theory map to Excel using database queries. Manually downloading data is okay for snapshots but is challenging to maintain as a dashboard.

    Andy


    Andrew Ott (he/him/his)

     

    Director of Core Facilities Administration

    Office for Research

    Northwestern University

    633 Clark Street

    Evanston, IL 60208-3113

     

    ph: 847-467-1622

    email: a-ott@northwestern.edu

     

     

     

     

     






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