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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By : Author Test, Brett Powell
Book Image

Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By: Author Test, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data. This book will provide thorough, technical examples of using all primary Power BI tools and features as well as demonstrate high impact end-to-end solutions that leverage and integrate these technologies and services. Get familiar with Power BI development tools and services, go deep into the data connectivity and transformation, modeling, visualization and analytical capabilities of Power BI, and see Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M come alive to deliver powerful solutions to address common, challenging scenarios in business intelligence. This book will excite and empower you to get more out of Power BI via detailed recipes, advanced design and development tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Visualizing performance relative to targets with KPIs and gauges

KPI and gauge visuals are frequently used to present the most critical performance measures in dashboards. Given their compact size and supporting context, such as trend graphs and target values, users can quickly obtain useful insights from these visuals alone, on any device. However, to derive the most value out of these visuals, it’s often necessary to apply Visual level filters, create supporting target measures, and group related visuals.

In this recipe, a KPI and gauge visual are developed to present growth relative to planned growth. Groups of KPI visuals are then created to provide visibility to current period, prior period, and year-to-date.

How to do it...

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