
You've built compelling dashboards in Power BI, but that's not all you can do. In this first chapter, you’ll learn the differences between reports and dashboards. Next, you'll add drill-through filters to your Power BI report to increase user interaction.

Reports vs. dashboards

Options

Dashboard

Power BI Report

Report or dashboard?

Increasing report interaction

Extend the Over Budget report

Create drill-through pages

Visualizing over time

Power BI Reports


In this chapter, you’ll learn to add interactive story-telling to your reports with bookmarks, buttons and navigation. 

Bookmarks, buttons and navigation

What can bookmarks do?

Create and display bookmarks

Create bookmarks

Storytelling with bookmarks

Create buttons

Bookmarks and button navigation

Bookmarks, Buttons and Navigation


Now it's time to customize the look and feel of buttons and tables using unicode and emojis in tables. You’ll also change how visuals interact with one another and see how conditional formatting can be a powerful tool for your report.

Customize look and feel

Button format options

Mouse actions and Unicode

Add a button animation

Working with tooltips

Table look and feel

Edit interactions

Customizing the Experience

Asking a question in natural language is sometimes the quickest way to get an answer from your data. In this chapter, you'll learn how to add and tweak the Q&A visual to your Power BI Reports.

Customize a report with Q&A

Create a Q&A statement

The Q&A visual

Add the Q&A visual

Working with the Q&A visual

Add synonyms for fields

Teach Q&A new terms

Congratulations!

Customize a Report with Q&A

Exercises and Datasets

DataCamp vs. Local Experience

In this advanced course, take your Power BI visualizations up a level with the skills you already have. You’ll learn complex alternative data storytelling techniques to simply building dashboards, including buttons and bookmarks to create more interactive visualizations. Customize the user experience by drillthrough filters and emoji, and learn how to tweak the Q&A feature for personalized reports.

<h2>Apply Data Storytelling Techniques</h2>
In this advanced course, take your Power BI visualizations up a level with the skills you already have. You’ll learn complex alternative data storytelling techniques to simply building dashboards, including buttons and bookmarks to create more interactive visualizations. 
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<h2>Customize User Experience (UX)</h2>
Customize the user experience by drillthrough filters and emoji, and learn how to tweak the Q&A feature for personalized reports.

Data Visualization in Power BI

Intermediate DAX in Power BI

Take your Power BI visualizations up a level with the skills you already have. Learn alternative data storytelling techniques to simply building dashboards.


Reports in Power BI

Take your Power BI visualizations up a level with the skills you already have. Learn alternative data storytelling techniques to simply building dashboards.

Data Analyst in Power BI

A machine worker needs to monitor temperatures at real time.

The CEO wants to track sales measures and the company's stock price over the course of the day.

The Sales department needs to review recent sales data while on the road, using nothing but their phones.

The Accounting department wants the ability to drill into invoices, interacting heavily with Power BI elements.

A data analyst wishes to provide a "guided tour" experience for the C-Suite to review annual results for each major vertical.

The Sales department wants to replace an existing Java application which controls their sales pipeline with Power BI.

Report or dashboard?

Reports in Power BI

Hands-on interactive exercise