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Learn Power BI
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Learn Power BI

by Greg Deckler
September 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
362 pages
9h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating your first visualization

Follow these steps to create your first visualization:

  1. In the Fields pane, if your Calendar table is not already expanded so that you can see the column names in the table, simply click the table name to expand.
  2. Start by clicking on the IsWorkDay column and drag and drop this column onto the canvas. Instantly, you have a clustered column chart whose y-axis goes from 0 to 800. If you hover your mouse over the column, you will see the text IsWorkDay 782 displayed. This popup is called a tooltip, and this indicates that there are 782 combined working days (Monday – Friday) in the years 2017, 2018, and 2019. Sure, this is a little high because we are not accounting for holidays, but we will get to that later. ...
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