Setup Cognos Embedded Dashboard

You need to create a new Dashboard in your Cloud Pak for Data project in order to visualize the analytical results. In this section you will learn how to setup a new Cognos Embedded Dashboard in your project.

Create a new Cognos Embedded Dashboard

  1. Before you get started, download the Covid-19-Predictions-Dashboard.json dashboard file and extract the zip file.

  2. Go to Cloud Pak for Data projects, select your project.

  3. Click on New Asset, under Graphical builders select Dashboard editor.

  4. Select create a new dashboard from Local file.

  • Upload the Covid-19-Predictions-Dashboard.json extracted file.
  • Enter a name for the dashboard.
  • Click on Create.
  1. Once the dashboard is created, you will see a message saying Missing data asset (1/8).

relink

  1. To relink the missing data assets, do the following:
  • Click on Relink.
  • Select Data Assets and select the dataset.
  • Link the following data assets:
    • Brussels.csv
    • brussels-actualVsPredicted.csv
    • brussels-errorEvaluation.csv
    • brussels-next7Prediction.csv
    • Wallonia.csv
    • wallonia-actualVsPredicted.csv
    • wallonia-errorEvaluation.csv
    • wallonia-next7Prediction.csv

re-link-data-asset2

Once all the assets are relinked, you will see the dashboard view as shown.

cognos-dashboard

More about the dashboard is explained in the next section.