This project analyzes retail sales data to uncover key business insights and improve decision-making using an interactive Power BI dashboard.
The dataset includes:
- Order details (Order Date, Ship Mode)
- Customer information (Segment, Region)
- Product details (Category, Sub-category)
- Sales, Profit, Discount, Quantity
- Removed duplicates and handled missing values
- Standardized formats (dates, categories)
- Created calculated fields (KPIs, profit metrics)
- Prepared data for analysis and visualization
- Discounts above 20% reduce profit by 30–40%
- Technology category contributes ~35–40% of total revenue
- West region generates ~30–35% of total profit
- Q4 contributes ~38% of annual sales (seasonal peak)
- KPI Cards (Sales, Profit, Orders)
- Sales trends over time
- Category and region analysis
- Discount vs Profit insights
- Interactive filters (Date, Category, Region)
- Excel (Data Cleaning)
- Power BI (Dashboard & Visualization)
- DAX (KPIs & Calculations)
- Identified key profit drivers and loss areas
- Highlighted impact of discounting on profitability
- Provided insights to support data-driven decisions
For a complete breakdown (business problem, recommendations, challenges), refer to the full project documentation.