Chapter 10: Creating Dashboards
One of the main reasons organizations adopt Power BI is to enable dynamic storytelling using data with vibrant visuals. Report designers create reports using specific datasets and sometimes, to tell a whole story, you need to use data across different datasets and reports. This is where Power BI dashboards become useful.
A dashboard is one place where you can see all the relevant information about something. In a car, the dashboard contains information about the speed of the car, what gear it is in, whether the lights are on, the temperature of the cabin environment, and even the volume of the sound system. All the data from this example comes from different systems and some inputs can vary when it comes to importance while driving the car, but all of them are going to be important to the person operating the car.
When used properly, dashboards become an integral component of a Power BI solution.
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