​​In this first chapter, you'll get to understand how the target audience matters in visualization. You'll also be introduced to the UK clothing business sales database, which you’ll use throughout the course.

Know your audience

Dashboard or report?

Tables and scatter charts

Add a table and slicers

Create a scatter plot

Create a bubble chart

The Audience is King

In the second chapter, you will learn how to build dashboards that connect on an emotional level, so they won't get forgotten about. 

Getting an emotional response

Factors for evoking emotion

Bar charts and small multiples

Create a bar chart

Format a visual

Stacking variables

Using small multiples

Getting an Emotional Response

In this chapter, we will learn how human memory works and why it is related to data visualization.

Reduce cognitive load

Reducing cognitive load

Combination charts and custom visuals

Line and area charts

Combo charts

Tornado charts

Reducing Cognitive Load

The last chapter is all about “less is more”. This will help you reduce the cognitive load for your dashboard’s users, making it easier for them to focus on the insights that matter.

Less is more

Options

Does this contribute to the story?

Is this the right visual element?

Is this visual element necessary?

How to do things better!

Shares, gauges, and KPIs

Shares of the whole

Gauges and cards

Key performance indicators

Conditional formatting

Congratulations!

Less is More

DataCamp vs. Local Experience

Exercises and Datasets

Power BI has extraordinary visuals that can be used in reports and dashboards.
In this Power BI course, you’ll learn to create insightful visualizations through built-in and customized charts and conditional formatting. You’ll discover how to create a plethora of visualizations such as scatter plots, tornado charts, gauges, and how to visualize everything without overwhelming your audience.

<h2>Create Insightful Visualizations</h2>
Power BI has extraordinary visuals that can be used in reports and dashboards.
In this Power BI course, you’ll learn to create insightful visualizations through built-in and customized charts and conditional formatting. 
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<h2>Discover New Chart Options</h2>
You’ll discover how to create a plethora of visualizations such as scatter plots, tornado charts, gauges, and how to visualize everything without overwhelming your audience.


Introduction to Power BI

Learn how to use Power BI to create insightful dashboards and reports, as well as data visualization best practices.

Data Visualization in Power BI

Power BI is a powerful data visualization tool that can be used in reports and dashboards.

Data Analyst in Power BI

Power BI Fundamentals

Engineering wants to show 99th percentile response times for their APIs on a sales pipeline.

Project Management wants to add number of outstanding customer requests on a report showing build status by project.

Engineering wants to show 99th percentile response times for each API endpoint as a pie chart.

Sales wants to use a line chart to show how many prospective customers are in each step of the sales pipeline.

Marketing would like the company logo to take the top 25% of every internal report.

The CEO wants you to add arrows pointing to specific visuals, as "They're too hard to find otherwise."

How to do things better!

Data Visualization in Power BI

Hands-on interactive exercise