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Contoso’s finance team wanted to see two things on one chart: how total revenue moved through 2025 and 2026, and how much came from Technology, Furniture and Office Supplies. A line chart showed the trend but hid the total. A Power BI area chart showed both, because the fills make the volume easy to see. … Read more >>>
A product manager at Contoso, Alex Wilber, asked me for a pyramid chart that compared product revenue across two years, with the best sellers at the base. I opened the Visualizations pane in Power BI Desktop and found what you’ve probably found too: there’s no pyramid chart in the list. You can still build a … Read more >>>
Every Monday, the sales lead at Contoso, Megan Bowen, opens the same report and asks one thing: are we ahead of target or not? A table of numbers doesn’t answer that fast enough. A Power BI KPI visual does, because it shows the latest value, the goal and the trend behind it in one small … Read more >>>
Last month, a sales manager at Contoso asked me for one report page that answered five questions: how much did we sell, what’s our margin, which region leads, how do we compare with last year, and what changed since last month. Each answer is a Power BI measure with a few lines of DAX. In … Read more >>>
In this Power BI Tutorial, we will learn about how to create a measure in Power BI and also we will see various examples of how to use Power BI measures. Also, we will discuss these topics: What is measure in Power BI? Create measures in Power BI Desktop Syntax for Power BI Measure Automatic … Read more >>>
Row-level security (RLS) in Power BI lets you show the right rows to the right people without creating separate reports for each user or region. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through what RLS is, when to use it, how to set it up (static and dynamic), and some best practices. What is Row-Level Security in … Read more >>>
Do you want to create a dashboard in the Power BI Service? In this Power BI tutorial, we will see how to build a Power BI dashboard in Power BI Service. Also, we will discuss the key features of the Power BI Dashboard. So, here we will cover the below topics: What is Dashboard in … Read more >>>
Megan Bowen tracks regional revenue for Contoso. Her pie chart shows each region’s share, but her manager wanted the slices to say something more: red for regions under $750,000, gold for the middle and blue for anything above $900,000. Picking colors by hand works until the numbers change next month. That’s what Power BI pie … Read more >>>
Alex Wilber’s sales report for Contoso has a pie of revenue by region. In the Monday meeting, the first question is always the same: “What’s driving West?” He used to build a second pie for categories, but it took space and nobody knew which pie to look at. A Power BI pie chart drill down … Read more >>>
Megan Bowen dropped Order Date onto a line chart to see Contoso’s monthly revenue, and Power BI drew one sloping line between two dots: 2025 and 2026. She asked me whether the chart was broken. It wasn’t. Power BI had turned her date into a hierarchy and started at the top level. In this tutorial, … Read more >>>
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