The Impact of Your Carbon Footprint

BIS Dashboard

What is a dashboard? What is the role of dashboards in business intelligence? How can dashboards help with Big Data? How are dashboards useful in business?

A business dashboard is a visual display of important imp formation that is used to reach to reach business goals. It’s a graphical representation of two or more variables. The organization of the information is clear so that the people using it can understand and make sense of the information. A dashboard will usually display numerical elemental and graphical visuals. For example a business manager would see, data and visuals that relate to key performance indicators and return on investments.  (Business Pro, 2015)

Business intelligence is what transforms data into information and then the information is turned into knowledge. Data is sales values, employee’s information such as age of employees. The information is the average yearly sales and the amount time an employee has worked at the company. The knowledge is what comes out of the information. It has to be enough so that companies can see its performance and see what they need to improve on. In short business intelligence is about improving company performance, basing on data grabbing, operating and analysing. A dashboard is a tool or a software that is used to support business intelligence process. Due to many businesses operating worldwide it can be difficult to analyse all the data, therefore this was the solution to that problem. The dashboard is an important part of all businesses now as it’s a framework for all the data transformation process. (BI Dashboards, 2015)

As stated before dashboards are support tools and software that assist businesses to turn data into information so that businesses can use it for knowledge in making future decisions. The dashboards are also there so the important information can stand out for the person who is looking it as it would convert large amounts of data to into graphics, tables and numerals so that it can be analysed easily.  (BI Dashboards, 2015)

            

There many uses of dashboards in business. For example business managers and owners can use this to track its performance by seeing how well the company is doing, they can also use it to track the process of the company. The dashboards provide important number and converted information into graphics and tables for managers and owners to look it at because it displays everything there, they do not have to go into the hassle of trying to find where the data is. Dashboards can help industries with organizational strategies.  (Small Business, 2015) 

1) Which region has the lowest and highest carbon footprint in 2010?

2) Which countries have the highest rate for coal, natural gas and petroleum in 2010?

3) Does the carbon footprint get larger as the population grows?

4) What country has the largest carbon footprint?

5) Were carbon footprints larger in the 1900s or in the early 2000s?

1) Asia and Oceania have the highest carbon footprint in 2010 by a long mile mostly lead by their coal consumption, but their natural gas consumption is second to Europe and their petroleum also second to North America. This is due to there being a greater population in Asia compared to any other part of the world along with fact that Asia is a leader in manufacturing. The lowest carbon footprint belongs to Middle East with the lowest coal consumption and the third lowest for natural gas but a pretty high up petroleum consumption.  We would use graphs to simplify the data for a more accurate result.

2) China leads the world in the consumption of coal in 2010 and the early 2000s. This is due to their vast amount of manufacturing companies. The United States leads the world in terms of natural gas consumption in 2010. This is most likely due to heating and cooking while also taking in to account their population. The United States also leads the world in terms of petroleum consumption in 2010 most likely due to the size of the United States. We would use graphs to simplify the data for a more accurate result.

3) The carbon footprint does increase as population grows due to its direct correlation with consumption per person. When there's more people alive at one time the demand for resources will go up always due to our need for them. Whether it is the biggest population or smallest with an increase to population the demand will all increase causing a larger carbon footprint every year. We would use graphs to simplify the data for a more accurate result.

4) China leads the world with the largest carbon footprint by a very large margin, with the U.S. coming in second. The difference between first and second is very large due to China also having one of the biggest populations in the world. Since China is also a major manufacturer of many products around the world their consumption rate is way higher than anyone. The U.S. is second because of their lifestyle and the needs to maintain it using fossil fuels putting them in second behind China. We would use graphs to simplify the data for a more accurate result.

5) The carbon footprint was larger in the early 200’s for two main reasons. Firstly, since the population is always growing the carbon footprint will always be bigger in the future due to demand/person. Secondly, with the increase of technology and manufacturing of goods the consumption of fossils fuels skyrocketed to meet the demanding market for its products. Lastly to reiterate the carbon footprint is greater in the early 2000’s due to the increase in population and the increase in demand for products. We would use graphs to simplify the data for a more accurate result.