As you document more and more of your work digitally, you are building a detailed database for your project that allows you to monitor, evaluate and coordinate your work. Aam Digital has two modules to help you analyze:
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Dashboard widgets give you a quick summary of your project in real-time. You can see simple numbers (e.g. how many participants are registered in your program currently) and critical developments (e.g. a list of students who have been absent in more than one class this week). Aam Digital's dashboard serves you as a kind of virtual assistant that highlights things that need your attention.
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Reports calculate or summarize your data in a very flexible way. You can create as many custom report "templates" as you need and run them to give you results for your current data (or a specific time period that you select, e.g. calculating the report for the last financial year). Reports are basically database queries that can combine any of your different data structures and also do calculations based on them (e.g. counting the number of unique participants across different events; combining fields of student, school and note records into one big table for export and analysis; calculating average improvements of beneficiaries based on their individual baseline and endline survey responses; ...)
Example of a Dashboard:
Example of Reports:
The difference between Dashboard and Report
Dashboard and Reports are designed for slightly different purposes. Therefore, some things are only possible with a "report" but not on the dashboard. Any advanced analysis or calculation from data requires a report.
The simple "record count" dashboard widget can show the total number of active records and disaggregate (i.e. split) them by any single field that's part of these records (e.g. show the number of children in the system and how many of them are male/female). Anything beyond this, like filtering or combining details of multiple fields, cannot be done on the Dashboard directly but needs to be implemented with a report.
Visualization (graphs & charts)
At the moment Aam Digital cannot generate any graphs or charts from your data directly on the system. You can easily download any list or report result and open it as a spreadsheet (or any other software) to create visualizations.
If you are interested in co-funding an Aam Digital feature for this, please reach out to us!