Adding visualization items to reports
Power BI installs with many visuals you can use to tell your data story. These visuals allow you to highlight the data you want in order to explain insights you have discovered in your data that lead to actions your business can take.
Reporting is a lens on your data, allowing non-technical people to understand your business's data. By visualizing your data, you make that data more accessible to a wider audience.
In Power BI, each visual you can use, from pie charts to funnel charts to some of the more esoteric visualizations, such as decomposition tree and key influencers, are all represented by their own icons in the Visualizations pane.
Figure 9.4 – Built-in visuals for building Power BI reports
The interface is often referred to as a clicky-clicky, draggy-droppy interface. The way you visualize your data is you select the visualization you want from the Visualizations pane. This will place the visualization...
