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Work with visualizations in a report

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Work with visualizations in a report

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- [Instructor] We're back on the district monthly sales page of the retail analysis report that we are working with. This page has five visualizations on it. We have one here that is a list of district managers. We have this year's sales by store number name, total sales variance, last year's sales, and this year's sales. And then total sales variance percentage. So we have a list, we have a column chart, another column chart, an area chart, and a bubble chart, which I always think their slick, although it takes me a little longer to winkle out what they're telling me. So the question is how do we use these visualizations? Why are they together on a page? And why are Power BI reports considered to be so useful as compared to, for example, if we just slammed these charts together in Excel, which we really could do if we needed to. Well, this is a cramped page of a report and we know that part of it is that we have the toolbar at the top taking up space as well, but it's not too bad. We…

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