Hi Elizabeth

I second PowerBI.  I attach Excel sheets and a simple Access DB to it.  It's easy to make simple Bar and Pie Graphs, Tree Maps, etc...  There's a calendar table that you may have to create to handle timeframes,  but there's a free desktop version with limited export functionality.

We do not get too granular here,  but I track Total_Items in Counter 5 reports at a monthly/yearly snapshot.

Thanks,

Randy Lancaster, ITIL
Applications Specialist

Henry Ford Hospital / Sladen Library
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Elizabeth,

Microsoft Power BI may be a good choice. Think of it as a web page for Excel Charts. I haven't worked with it in awhile, but I remember there were many ways to display data. I don't remember it being that difficult to use.

Brent Ferguson, MLS
Librarian, Elkhart Public Library
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In our Annual Report, our ERL has always provided a detailed list of database /resource usage. It is a ponderous pile of figures which few actually review.

I'm looking at presenting usage data differently this year, and wondering how others may have approached this.
Total ebooks, or articles downloaded- number of logins or searches to our discovery layer...?

Any inspiration out there?

Thanks!

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Leonard
Assistant Dean, Information Technologies and Collections Services University Libraries Seton Hall University
400 South Orange Avenue
South Orange, NJ 07079
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