The nuts and bolts of the trending dashboard

The Trending dashboard is located on the left-hand side of the Sales Analysis dashboard. It consists of four quadrants of bar charts that can successfully be viewed all at once; the selection section matches the other dashboards. These, in general, are good choices.

Each of the four charts has a Drill-down group button that allows us to get to successive dimensions and layers of detail in a particular chart. And the charts all interact with each other, providing additional information about the category we are drilling into. For example, if we choose New Zealand in the lower-right corner Region Chart, we can see in the upper-left corner Segment Change Chart that we have a profit margin on Wholesale Liquor; with both New Zealand and Australia on the grid, however, we have a loss margin. We can also see in the Product Change Chart directly above the Region Chart that Baked Goods are only a small contributor in New Zealand and that Deli makes the...