π Business Sales Dashboard from E-commerce Data

π About the Task
In this real-world internship task, you’ll work with e-commerce sales data to build a professional, interactive dashboard. The goal is to help business owners and decision-makers understand:
- What are the best-selling products?
- When do sales peak during the year?
- Which categories or regions bring the most revenue?
You donβt need coding skills β just curiosity and willingness to learn data analytics using Power BI and Excel.
β What You’ll Do
- Clean and organize raw sales data (Excel/CSV format).
- Analyze patterns like monthly sales trends, category-wise performance, and customer behavior.
- Build a visually appealing Power BI dashboard with filters and charts.
- Present insights and recommendations as if you were helping a real business.
π― Skills You’ll Gain
- π‘ Data cleaning & transformation
- π Time series trend analysis
- π DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) for creating KPIs
- π Business storytelling with visuals
- π₯ Importing & handling Excel/CSV datasets
π οΈ Tools You’ll Use
- Power BI Desktop β Download here (Free)
- Microsoft Excel β Basic data exploration and formatting
- Optional: SQL β If you want to take your data preprocessing to the next level
π Sample Datasets (Choose any one to start)
These are free datasets β no sign-in required:
- π E-commerce Sales Data (Kaggle)
Contains over 500K online sales transactions from a UK-based retailer. - π» Superstore Sales Dataset
Perfect for beginners β includes region, product, and sales info. - π§Ύ E-commerce Data – Orders & Customers (Kaggle)
Multi-category store behavior from millions of sessions.
π Tutorial to Get Started (For Reference)
No experience? No worries! Follow this step-by-step video:
πΊ YouTube: Build E-Commerce Sales Dashboard in Power BI (Beginner Friendly)
(Covers everything from loading data to creating beautiful charts.)