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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Cookbook Creating Business Intelligence Solutions of Analytical Data Models, Reports, and Dashboards

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788290142
Length 802 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Configuring Power BI Development Tools 2. Accessing and Retrieving Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Power BI Data Model 4. Authoring Power BI Reports 5. Creating Power BI Dashboards 6. Getting Serious with Date Intelligence 7. Parameterizing Power BI Solutions 8. Implementing Dynamic User-Based Visibility in Power BI 9. Applying Advanced Analytics and Custom Visuals 10. Developing Solutions for System Monitoring and Administration 11. Enhancing and Optimizing Existing Power BI Solutions 12. Deploying and Distributing Power BI Content 13. Integrating Power BI with Other Applications

Integrating card visualizations

Card and Multi-row card visualizations are often positioned at the top and left sections of report pages given the importance of individual measures and small sets of measures. Although less graphically powerful and interactive than other visuals, cards are also the most common tiles pinned to Power BI dashboards and are also used frequently in phone layouts for mobile consumption. A common practice in report design is to start with a few high-level measures represented as card or KPI visuals and build additional chart and table visuals around these.

This recipe includes an example of a KPI visual as a more valuable alternative to a card visual and a multi-row card example. Additionally, a brief example of a gauge visualization is included in the There's more... section.

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