Reviewing different visuals and publishing reports

When creating Power BI reports, you’ll want to consider a few key things. First, is the data in the report accurate and up to date? In the previous section, we covered connecting to data and data modeling; in this section, we will review the report layout and different visualizations. It is just as crucial as data modeling when you are designing your report that you tell the story and know what story you are telling. If the user opens the report and must spend lots of time figuring out what the visuals are saying, or if it isn’t clear, the user will not use it. We will dive into user adoption later in this book but always keep the user in mind when building your visuals. As you probably already know, I like to use color, but I am cautious with the color I use in my dashboard reports. Still, have fun with this section; even if you are not that creative, you can use many different sites to get inspiration, and I will add...