December 2024
Beginner
464 pages
11h 41m
English
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Chapter 12
Visualizing Data in Power BI
IN THIS CHAPTER
Mastering the various visualization options available in Power BI
Deciding when to use specific visualization techniques
Learning how to craft powerful reports and dashboards
You’ve probably heard the adage, “A picture speaks a thousand words.” One of the reasons so many people use Power BI is to create pictures of data. After you import the data, perhaps millions of records, you can use Power BI to create visualizations to help understand what the data says. A visualization is a bit easier for most people to understand than a large, complex dataset or a single-page report.
In this chapter, I show how to access the visualizations available in Power BI and help you determine which visualizations are best suited for the data experiences you want to create. The chapter also delves into reports and dashboarding, which help tell the story you want to create with your visualizations.
Looking at Report Fundamentals and Visualizations
Visualizations are basically pictures of data. A visualization can be as simple as a chart or graph that shows one or more data points within a dataset. When you work with visualizations in Power BI, ...
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