How to Create Power BI Dashboard - Tips n Tricks & Demo

10/21/2021

Power BI Desktop is one of the powerful applications in data analysis and creating reports. In this article, we will show you some tips and a short demo to help you understand better and be able to create effective and beautiful reports

#1 - Consider 

• What are the key metrics that will help them make decisions?
• How will the dashboard be used?
• What information does your audience need to be successful? 

#2 - Use the right visualization for the data

• Visualizations should paint a picture and be easy to "read" and interpret. 
• For some data and visualizations, a simple graphic visualization is enough. 
• Be careful using visuals that look pretty but are hard to read, such as 3-D charts. 
• Pie charts are best if they have fewer than eight categories. 

#3 - Accent the most important information

If the text and visualizations on your dashboard are all the same size, your readers will have a hard time focusing on what's most important.

For example, card visualizations are a good way to display an important number prominently.

#4 - Tell a story on one screen

Because dashboards are meant to show important information at a glance, having all the tiles on one screen is best. 

Most people read from top to bottom. So, put the highest level of data at the top left corner, and show more detail as you move in the direction the audience uses for reading (left-to-right, top-to-bottom).

#5 - Learn more about dashboard design by visiting MS Galary

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Training course: Microsoft Power BI for Desktop