Build Smarter Dashboards

Turning Raw Data into Real-Time Insights with ChatGPT

This article explains how professionals can use ChatGPT to create custom dashboards from virtually any dataset—without needing advanced programming skills. It walks through how AI can assist with structuring raw data, identifying key performance indicators, generating visualizations, and even producing dashboard-ready code that you can view immediately. The piece highlights how AI reduces development time, improves insight discovery, and allows consultants and advisors to rapidly prototype and deploy decision-support tools for clients. A companion video resource demonstrates the full process step-by-step.

Data is everywhere—but insight is not. Consultants, valuation professionals, and financial advisors constantly work with spreadsheets, exports from accounting systems, CRM reports, and operational data. The challenge is not access to information. The challenge is transforming that information into something visual, interactive, and decision ready. The good news? You no longer need to be a developer—or even a BI specialist—to build powerful dashboards.

With ChatGPT, you can turn virtually any dataset into a customized dashboard by leveraging AI to:

• Identify key metrics and KPIs
• Clean and structure raw data
• Recommend visualizations
• Generate formulas
• Write code for Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or web dashboards
• Create executive-ready summaries

See It in Action

I will use a simple prompt called “Custom Dashboard” from the AI Data University.

To walk through the full process step-by-step, including a real example of turning raw data into a working dashboard, watch the companion video here:

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Colin Brown is the CTO of Syncnet.com and helps consultants implement AI into their practice. He can be reached at https://Syncnet.com or cto@syncnet.com.