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Create a KPI visual

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Create a KPI visual

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- [Instructor] Alright, so you're probably getting used to the drill here. Let's go ahead and make sure the canvas has focus before we go ahead and add this visual. And the first thing we're going to do here is I'm going to go to my sales table on the right hand side here into the data pane. And I'm actually going to set up a measure that is just giving us a target value. So I'm going to go to sales, I'm going to right click on it and I'm going to say New measure. And what I'm going to do here is create this New measure, which is basically just going to give us a blank target, say $7 million, hit enter, and now we've got something to measure against as our target. Now in a real production system you would have targets that are based on dates and products and territories and all kinds of things based on the way that your organization does planning. But for level one learning and introduction to Power BI, we're just going to set a general target of 7 million and not say, is that 7…

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