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11. Identify Patterns and Trends

Jessica Jolly1  
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Evanston, IL, USA
 

Power BI’s purpose is to allow you to visualize your data and thereby facilitate analysis of that data. In this chapter, I will explore several features and visualization types that are available to make analysis both easy and comprehensive. Let’s start with the Analytics feature.

The Analytics Pane

Power BI has a lot of visualizations that we readily recognize: column, bar, the much maligned pie, and, of course, line charts. Some of these visualization ...

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