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zwang
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1 year ago

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.

 

If you enjoyed this report and found it insightful, please give it a like to cast your vote for me — your support means a lot! I’d be truly grateful. Feel free to leave a comment if you’d like me to share the PBIX file. 

 

Thanks,

Zofia W

 

15 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    The dynamic headlines and dynamic visuals in the Story Finder section are insightful, making it very convenient and straightforward to find relevant stories!

  • Hello, just voted for your dashboard. Could you share the PBIX please? Thank you!

    • Awams's avatar
      Awams
      Regular Visitor

      Great job.

      I just have one small comment: the design of the “Overview” page is different from the other pages. After viewing the “OVERVIEW” page, one would expect the design of the other pages to be similar.

       

       

      Thanks for sharing.

    • zwang's avatar
      zwang
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      Hi, please drop you email address and I'll share the file with you, thanks!

  • Luis12's avatar
    Luis12
    Frequent Visitor

    Excelente trabajo, podrias compartir el archivo pbxi.

     

  • Impressive work! It’s inspiring to see how others visualize their data , I learned something new from this.