Use visuals in Power BI

Introduction        

             Microsoft Power BI is a collection of apps, software services and connectors that come together to turn unrelated data into visually impressive and interactive insights. Power BI can work with simple data sources like Microsoft Excel and complicated ones like cloud-based or on-premises hybrid Data warehouses. Power BI has the capabilities to easily connect to your data sources, visualise and share and publish your findings with anyone and everyone.

Visuals allow you to present data in a compelling and insightful way, and help you show the important components of it.

Power BI has many compelling visuals and many more that are released frequently.

Create and customize simple visualizations

Two ways to create a new visualization in Power BI Desktop are:

• Drag field names from the Fields pane and then drop them on the report canvas. By default, your visualization appears as a table of data.

• In the Visualizations pane, select the type of visualization that you want to create. With this method, the default visual is a blank placeholder that resembles the type of visual that you selected.

 

After you have created your graph, map, or chart, you can begin dragging data fields onto the bottom portion of the Visualization pane to build and organize your visual. The available fields will change based on the type of visualization that you selected. As you drag and drop data fields, your visualization will automatically update to reflect changes.

Select the paintbrush icon on the Visualizations pane to make cosmetic changes to your visual. 

Examples of cosmetic changes include background, alignment, title text, and data colors.

Create slicers

A slicer is an on-canvas visual filter that allows report users to segment the data by a specific value. 

To add a slicer to your report, select Slicer from the Visualizations pane.

Map visualizations

To create a map, select the Map option in the Visualization pane. In the Visualizations options, 

add a value to the Location bucket to use a map visual.