Behind the Numbers: Life Across Europe

This Power BI dashboard offers an interactive exploration of key societal and lifestyle indicators across European countries from 2015 to 2022. It is designed to:

• Summarise the big picture at a glance.

• Uncover stories hidden in the data.

• Deep‑dive into specific themes like cost of living, cultural participation, and safety.

With dynamic visuals, automated headlines, and intuitive navigation, it empowers users to move seamlessly from high‑level insights to detailed, country‑level analysis.

Page Highlights

Page 1 – Overview

• Presents headline metrics for Europe in 2022 with changes since 2015.

• Offers a snapshot of population, life satisfaction, cost of living, cultural participation, and safety.

• Acts as the entry point for the dashboard, setting the context for deeper exploration.

Page 2 – Story Finder

• Interactive tool to discover data‑driven narratives.

• Users can select a country and metric to generate automatic story headlines for journalists (e.g., “Life satisfaction in X rose by Y% since 2015”).

• Highlights trends, anomalies, and turning points that might otherwise be overlooked.

Page 3 – Living Cost

• Focuses on the Cost of Living Index across countries and over time.

• Compares each country’s cost of living to the European average.

• Identifies most and least expensive countries and tracks how affordability has shifted.

Page 4 – Cultural Participation

• Examines engagement in cultural activities such as arts, music, and heritage events.

• Highlights countries with high cultural involvement and those with declining participation.

• Explores the link between cultural participation and overall life satisfaction.

Page 5 – Safety

• Analyses the Safety Index for each country.

• Shows changes over time and compares against the European benchmark.

• Highlights safe havens and areas where safety perceptions have dropped.

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Zofia W

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