Business Dashboards & Data Analytics

About this session

Held live online on Wednesday, April 22, 2026 — a 90-minute working session with 24 operators. We took the spreadsheets everyone dreads maintaining and turned them into a single live dashboard that updates itself.

What we covered

• Picking KPIs that matter — the handful of numbers that actually move a small business, versus a wall of vanity metrics.
• From spreadsheet to live dashboard — connecting data sources and refreshing reports automatically with a self-hosted analytics stack.
• Self-hosting your data tools — running dashboards and databases on your own server so your numbers stay yours.
• Clean data habits — why one tidy source table beats five beautiful (and conflicting) exports.
• Sharing the right view — giving each person the dashboard they need, not the whole database.

What attendees walked away with

Participants left with a working dashboard over their own numbers and a repeatable pattern for keeping it current without manual copy-paste.

Key takeaways

1. One clean source table fixes ninety percent of reporting pain.
2. Automate the refresh — a manual dashboard is stale within a week.
3. Fewer, better KPIs beat a wall of metrics nobody reads.
4. Self-hosted analytics keeps your business data private and your costs flat.

Materials & recording

• Session recording — shared with everyone on the free list.
• KPI worksheet — the framework we used to choose the numbers that matter.
• Dashboard starter config — the self-hosted setup from the live build.

"I stopped rebuilding the same report every Monday. The dashboard just updates now." — session attendee

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