How To: View Dashboards Relative to a Business Metric
It can be useful to view the company's emissions data within the context of the scale of the business or subdivision. You can add business data and then view the dashboards normalized over that data.
Adding business data
In order to view a relative dashboard, you must first add business data to the inventory.
Navigate to the Inventory and select the Business tab.
Find the Business data tab in the Inventory Click on the "Add" button at the bottom of the table and then click on the new row to open its detail pane.
Complete the basic details for the entry (title, org unit, and period). You can also add notes and attachments to these entries.
Business metric details Select the relevant option from the Metric dropdown.
If the metric that you need is not already one of the option, select the "Manage business metrics" option.
Select the "Manage business metrics" option to add or update the available metrics A modal will appear where you can add, update, and delete metrics.
Select the "Add new business metric" from the dropdown and then enter a Label and Unit for the new metric.
Creating a new metric to represent the size of an office space If you want to edit a previous metric, select it from the dropdown and make changes as you need. You previous updates will not be lost unless you click the "Discard changes" button.
Click the "Save changes" button to save and close the modal.
In the detail pane, select the new metric and complete the volume field.
Adding the data for a 125 square meter office Continue with adding the rest of the business data. If you don't have the values for a specific year or organizational unit, you will not see any data for them when enabling a relative metric on the Dashboards.
Inventory table containing the data for three offices of different size
Viewing the Normalized Dashboards
Once you have added business data you can view both the Insights and Compare dashboards with a relative metric enabled.
Navigate to the Dashboard view.
On the Insights tab, click the "See all" button next to the filters to view all the available dashboard controls.
Click the "See all" button to view all controls In the "Relative Metrics" section, select Intensity Ratio from the Ratio dropdown and the metric from the Business Metric dropdown.
Enabling a metric from the Dashboard Controls Click "Done" to see the result of the normalization.
On the Compare tab, you can set the relative metric for each graph separately.
Click the three-dot menu next to the graph title, and select "See all filters".
Access the Dashboard Controls from the three-dot menu on the Compare tab Follow the same steps as above to set the metric ratio for the selected graph.
You can now review whether the difference between two offices emissions are significant once you have accounted for the size of the office.
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