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Creating reports to visualize your data over pages

Creating reports to visualize your data over pages

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Creating reports to visualize your data over pages

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- [Instructor] Not all data is best consumed using a dashboard. Yes, dashboards provide valuable capabilities, but some reports can be valuable in different formats. When we have reports that have line items and that is the type of display this will produce several pages and a dashboard representation of that data may not be the most user friendly. There are tools like Power BI Report Builder that allow us to build what are called paginated reports. Paginated reports allow you to connect to data, not unlike dashboards. In fact, before the popularity of the dashboard most of the reports were paginated reports. Although some people think they are a thing of the past I think it's important to remember what determines the style of your report is the need for how that data is best visualized and how it's going to be consumed. If it's going to be delivered via PDF, or even printed for a meeting. In our role we've been asked…

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