Power BI enables the creation of interactive dashboards that are single-page highlights of key metrics, differing from multi-paged reports available on Power BI Desktop and service. Dashboards are designed to present essential insights through various visualizations (tiles) sourced from multiple reports and datasets. This document outlines the process of building a Power BI dashboard, starting with access to the Power BI service using a corporate or educational email.
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Power BI enables the creation of interactive dashboards that are single-page highlights of key metrics, differing from multi-paged reports available on Power BI Desktop and service. Dashboards are designed to present essential insights through various visualizations (tiles) sourced from multiple reports and datasets. This document outlines the process of building a Power BI dashboard, starting with access to the Power BI service using a corporate or educational email.
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Power BI offers interactive and dynamic features required for creating
interactive dashboards. These dashboards, which are simply a collection of
visuals, can be built with a deep level of interactivity and are accessible in various formats to consumers. Since they are usually a single page, Power BI dashboards need to be well-designed highlights of an entire story.
It is also important to note that Power BI dashboards are quite different
from Power BI reports. For example:
1. Power BI reports are available on Power BI Desktop and Power BI service,
while Power BI dashboards can only be found on Power BI service. 2. Reports can be multi-paged, while dashboards are single-paged highlights. This tutorial introduces an end-to-end process of features available in the Power BI service for building interactive dashboards. Although they are a single page and may seem to restrict the depth of insights, dashboards are excellent ways of ensuring that only the most important metrics in the organization are captured.
This seemingly restrictive nature ensures that deep consideration is given
to the different visualizations (referred to as tiles) to be captured. These visualizations or tiles can come from multiple reports using different datasets, on-premise or on-cloud, which deliver a highly interactive analytics solution.
Now, let us explore the steps involved in building a Power BI dashboard.
Building a Power BI Dashboard
Getting started with Power BI service
As mentioned earlier, dashboards are available only on the Power BI
service. Therefore, before we begin, we will need a corporate email for access. Visit app.powerbi.com to register your corporate email, or if you are a student or have an existing work or business email, you can also use that to sign up. After signing in, a home page is displayed. Getting started with Power BI. Image by Author
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