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Identify appropriate visualizations for data

Identify appropriate visualizations for data

- [Instructor] Now we're going to dive into appropriate visualizations for data. As humans, most of us like visuals instead of words, especially when it comes to data. After all, they do say that a picture paints 1,000 words. Visualizations in Power BI help us make the data become much clearer and easier to understand. Power BI has some excellent visuals that we can use on our Power BI reports, and on our dashboards. Let's take a look into this subject a little deeper. Power BI has a variety of visuals that you can use to report on the data in your data model. Visuals allow you to present the important information and insights that you've discovered in the data in an insightful way, and users of your reports often rely on these visualizations. Without them, they would struggle to understand the underlying data. In Power BI Desktop, each visual is represented by an icon in the visualizations pane, which we can see in…

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