Dashboards/About our Dataset

A. Dashboards serve the purpose of giving businesses a easy and simple look at a grouping of information. Businesses can use these dashboards to determine whether or not their business is on track and successfully completely the businesses goals. Dashboards can be used in many different ways to benefit a business. Examples include:

• to see if sales and market share targets are being reached on an easy to read interface
• to track the businesses finances (can also be used for personal finance)

Overall, dashboards give businesses with a great amount of data an easy to read graph/table that they can reference and check up on at a glance. Dashboards change the way businesses view their big data/business information.

B. The dataset that we were given to study represents the American government as an enterprise trying to collect data about specific counties and/or states around the country and the activity the dataset represents is organizing and manipulating statistics about American income tax, tax returns, tax exemptions, gross wages and salaries, etc.

• Which 5 counties have the highest adjusted gross incomes out of all American counties?

The attributes that we are using to compare in regards to this question are the various County names within America and the metric that we have decided to gather the appropriate data from is the adjusted gross income figures per County.

• Which 5 counties have the lowest wages and salary incomes overall?

The attributes that we are using to compare in regards to this question are the various County names within America and the metric that we have decided to gather the appropriate data from is the wages and salary incomes per County.

• What are the 5 states that have the lowest number of tax exemptions?

The attributes that we are using to compare in regards to this question are the various State names within America and the metric that we have decided to gather the appropriate data from is the number of tax exemptions per State.

• Which 5 states have the lowest amount of interest earned per annum?

The attributes that we are using to compare in regards to this question are the various State names within America and the metric that we have decided to gather the appropriate data from is the amount of interest earned per State.

• What 5 counties have the lowest number of dividends before exclusions in America?

The attributes that we are using to compare in regards to this question are the various County names within America and the metric that we have decided to gather the appropriate data from is the number of tax exemptions per State.

Sarah Piercey
Melynnda O'Donnell
Natasha Majeed