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Gain insights into data by using Power BI

Gain insights into data by using Power BI

From the course: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press

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Gain insights into data by using Power BI

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Power BI is a tool that enables users to access data from a variety of sources and display it in various forms. As you can see here, Power BI can create dashboards, reports and apps, and configure them for display on a variety of devices, including standard monitors, tablets, and smartphones. A Power BI dashboard is the most basic of the forms that users can create with their data. As you can see here, a dashboard consists of a number of tiles, each of which contains a graphical element, and this example provides a variety of different graphical forms, including column graphs, bar graphs, pie graphs and simple text. As you can see here, these individual tiles. Are all carefully configured to show the data in its best possible form. And as users work with that data, they can modify the graphical content and make it look any way they wish. Dashboards are also interactive. By clicking on an individual element, you can display…

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