Exploring data visualization

Modern data analysis systems serve business intelligence (BI) workloads that include data modeling and visualization. Essentially, data visualization enables data-driven decisions to be made in organizations.

We will explore data visualization in detail in Chapter 13, Working with Power BI.

Data analysts can use a variety of data visualization tools. For example, charting support in productivity tools such as Microsoft Excel and built-in data visualization widgets on notebooks are used to explore data on services such as Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Databricks, to visually explore data and summarize insights.

Enterprise-scale business analytics, on the other hand, often require an integrated system that can enable complex data modeling, interactive reporting, and secure sharing.

The following is an example of data modeling in Power BI Desktop:

Figure 5.5 – Data modeling in Power BI

As we can see, Power BI...