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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference
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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference

by Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
794 pages
19h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Ribbon Chart

The Ribbon Chart is no different than the other visuals we just worked with; it is good at viewing data over time. What makes Ribbon Charts effective though is their ability at showing rank change; the highest range or value is always displayed on the top for each of the time periods. The chart also does have a unique visual flowing appeal to it that is different than the other visuals. Let's take a look that the Ribbon Chart.

Let's look at, setting up the visual:

  1. Select the Ribbon Chart to add as a new visual, and resize it to take up a quarter of the report canvas.
  2. For the Axis area, let's choose the Date field from the Date (Order) table so that we have a hierarchy available for drilldown.
  3. The next field we will add to ...
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