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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide
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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

by Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana
July 2018
Beginner
202 pages
5h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Bar and Column charts

Both the Bar and Column charts are very similar in setup and how they visual data. The only difference here will be the orientation: the Bar chart uses rectangular bars horizontally where the length of the bar is proportional to the data, while the Column chart displays the bars vertically, but both are used to compare two or more values. Both of these visualizations have three different formats; Stacked, Clustered, and 100% Stacked. For our example, we will focus on the Bar chart, but users can easily switch over to the Column just with the click of a button.

There are some situations where the Bar chart will better display data, and the same thing can be said of the Column chart. The biggest limitation for the Column ...
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