IBM- Naan Mudhalvan Data Analytics with Cognos
Phase 3
Development Part 1
Student Name : Sanjay M
Register Number : 620821104101
Branch : B.E CSE
Year : 3rd Year
Topic : Data Analytics with Cognos
Title : Product Sales Analysis
College : Gnanamani College of Technology
Introduction :
Once you've collected the data, a critical step is to
process and clean it meticulously. This process is vital to ensure the accuracy and
reliability of your findings, as clean data is fundamental to any successful analysis.
By completing these initial tasks, you'll be well-prepared to dive into the exciting
world of product sales analysis with IBM Cognos.
Objectives :
Start building the product sales analysis using IBM Cognos for
visualization. Define the analysis objectives and collect sales data from source
shared. Process and clean the collected data to ensure its accuracy and reliability..
Data source
Dataset is collected from the kaggle.com named “daily-website-visitors.csv” which
has a data about the Days, Day of week, Date, page Loads, Unique visits, First-
time visits, Returning Visits.
Dataset link : https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ksabishek/product-sales-
data
Data Loading
Steps Involved in data loading on IBM cognos.
1. Login to your IBM cognos
2. Click more menu from the left side
3. Select new tab
4. Click Data module tab
5.Upload the dataset for your project and select the Corresponding
file
6. preview the data
7.Explore the data
8. save the data module
Data Preprocessing and Cleaning
In this phase the following steps will taken
Handling missing data
Data Transformation
Data Type Conversion
Removing Duplicates
Dealing Outliers
Once you saved the data module. Click the corresponding dataset on IBM cognos
and Preview the mosule
Right Click the row where you want to clean the data
It provides the UI to Clean the data and makes the task easy one, Now Updating
and Replacing the Null values are simple
data module will be updated by doing the above process
after the completion of process start creating the dashboard for Visualization
Dashboard Creation
Dashboard creation are helpful to visualizing the data
1. Goto Home menu
2. Select the new tab
3. Click dashboard
4. Choose the template for your project and click
5.Now Dashboard is created
6. Select the data source
Visualization : After creating the dashboard, the next step is to
visualize the data
In IBM Cognos
1. Goes to the Corresponding Dashboard
2. select the visualizations tab in the left side of title bar
3.Choose the system as you want and put the data source for the
required columns
In the above screen shot displays the Pie chart and model compares
the “Date” and “Q-P1” .
X-axis =Q-P1
Y-axis = Q-P2
After performing these activities a comprehensive document will be
created to demonstrate the ability to Communicate and share
finding.
Conclusion :
In summary, product sales analysis is a vital tool for understanding and improving
your business's performance, enabling informed decisions and sustainable
growth.
