Introduction To Power BI

Section — 3

A.I Hub
5 min readApr 20, 2023

In this article we will take a introductory drive and along with that we also understanding the core concept of visual creation in power bi with three different corners.

Topics Covered

  • How to create visual manually
  • How to arrange your dashboard
  • Interaction of multiple visuals on a dashboard

How to Create Visual Manually🤔

If the user needs another visual that shows the total sales of three different regions on a single chart. since the user want this on a dashboard he went to the page selector and click on the plus button. This presented a fresh page free for any visual.

The user wants a matrix that shows the value to be used for the visualization, user clicked on the matrix icon presented on the visualization pane, than he took his mouse pointer to the fields and selected the columns the user needed from the data which was to represent the data selected on the matrix, he wanted a pie chart. To do that, he selected the pie chart symbol on the visualization pane. Immediately power bi generated a pie chart for the data highlighted.

The user able to create a pie chart without any previous knowledge of power bi because the environment was simple and easy to understand. Do you have a particular type of visualization you want to create, upload your data file now and start creating, emulate user and select the fields you want to create, it is pretty easy when you do so, if you get confused at any point, so don’t forget to use the “Ask Question” on the home ribbon. It will help you create the visuals in your imaginations.

If show the importance of selecting fields, user will create another clustered column chart but with different fields selected.

Here, are the steps for creating visual manually 👇

  • Firstly, he select the field he wants to which are region sales and profit.
  • Than he select clustered column chart on the visualization pane.
  • The visualization is different from the first one created because the fields selected are different when creating your visual only use the relevant for accuracy.

How to Arrange your Dashboard🤔

If you want to arrange your dashboard so, all you need to do is create all the visuals on single page. You just need to resize and arrange them.

Here, are the two factors that matters, when you arrange dashboard in Power BI

  • Resizing a Visual
  • Arranging a Visual

Resizing a Visual

  • Click on the visual, it will produce four corners.
  • Move your mouse pointer at any of the corner.
  • Adjust until you are satisfied with the size.

Arranging a Visual

  • Resize the visual on the page with the steps above
  • When you are done resizing, click on the white space on the dashboard to deselect the visual.

Interaction of Multiple Visuals on a Dashboard🤗

For this demonstration, you need to upload data to power bi,if you have not been following practically before. User’s data will be used as an example.

If you want to do this, follow this steps below.👇

  • He clicked on the “+” button in the page selector to create a new page.
  • He created a slicer by clicking on the necessary field and selecting the slicer symbol on the visualization pane. Slicers can only allow the selection on one field and in this case, it was sale.
  • He resized the visual till, it was about one fourth of the page.
  • He created another visual, this time it was clustered column chart using the fields.
  • Creating another visual by selecting the necessary fields and a visualization of your choice.
  • Immediately a different visual will be created on the page. Adjust and resize it according to your taste.

Glimpses of Quick Facts 😎

  • You are create as many visuals as you want on a page, but for a legible and well-arranged dashboard. It is advisable to create only four visuals on a page.
  • You can change the visualization of any visual on the dashboard with the click on the visualization pane. The same applies to the fields that make up the visual.
  • With the simplicity and ease of creating visual on power bi, you can easily create four different visuals in less 10 minutes. Once you have uploaded your data file, your visual is just a click away.

Conclusion

When we as a team running any sort of business in current challenging market, So as a better business person we need to choose best business intelligence tool that help us to shape out our business constraints and also figure out the problems that comes up after the intervention of humans so power bi comes up with a different stance and through power bi we play with our raw data and explore it from every corner.

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