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Identify and describe uses for visualization controls, including pie, bar, donut, and scatter plots, and KPIs

Identify and describe uses for visualization controls, including pie, bar, donut, and scatter plots, and KPIs

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

Identify and describe uses for visualization controls, including pie, bar, donut, and scatter plots, and KPIs

This is an example of a dashboard in Power BI. And as you note, there are several different types of graphs on this page as well as tiles just providing numerical data. These different types of graphs are called visualizations in Power BI and part of the process of creating a dashboard is selecting visualizations. The overall process of creating a dashboard looks like this. You connect to data sources, you transform the data, you create report visualizations, you build the dashboard from the report, and then you publish the dashboard. So in this video, we're going to talk about creating visualizations. The visualizations pane on the right side of the screen, which is outlined here, is where you select the type of graph you want to display in a particular tile. In this case, the dashboard is zoomed in on one particular tile and the visualizations page, because that tile is selected, will modify that graph if you select a…

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