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9. Create Reports

Jessica Jolly1  
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Evanston, IL, USA
 
When I teach, I notice that many students use the terms “report” and “dashboard” interchangeably. Understandably so, because from a user perspective, the function of a report is to serve as a dashboard, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary:

A graphical summary of various pieces of important information, typically used to give an overview of a business.

In the Power BI ecosystem, reports and dashboards are two different elements that can be created. Let’s compare reports ...

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