Analyze data with Power BI

  Introduction        

             Microsoft Power BI is a collection of apps, software services, and connectors that come together to turn unrelated data into visually impressive and interactive insights. Power BI can work with simple data sources like Microsoft Excel and complicated ones like cloud-based or on-premises hybrid Data warehouses. Power BI has the capabilities to easily connect to your data sources, visualize and share and publish your findings with anyone and everyone. Data Analysis in Power BI for Beginners.

        Power BI is a business analytics tool that Microsoft owns. It is one of the leading business intelligence tools trusted by most IT companies in the market to improve their business growth. It provides advanced analytic tools, reports, and visualizations. Power BI is much versatile and platform-independent tool that users can embed on the cloud, mobile, and web apps.

What is Data Analysis?

Data analysis is a process of inspecting, transforming, and monitoring to turn raw data into valuable insights. Data Insights helps in making the required decisions for the growth of business and company. To lead a data-driven approach for a business, it is important to analyze the data in deep. Various techniques for Data Analysis in Power BI will be interesting and beneficial for you to learn.

Explore Power BI Desktop

Power BI Desktop is a computer application that contains all the features used for analyzing data. You can download this application from Microsoft’s official website or store.

Learn Data Analysis in Power BI

Power BI provides various tools and charts to analyze data efficiently. We will use some of the basic techniques for data analysis in Power BI to generate valuable insights.


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1. Visit the ‘Reports‘ tab to start creating visuals and charts.

2. Select or drag any visualization and paste it on the screen. We used a stacked column chart on the left and an Area chart on the right, as shown in the above image.

3. Visit this ‘Fields‘ section to manage your charts or visualization.

4. These are all the properties of a chart, and these properties change depending on the chart you select. You can play with all these properties to learn them better. Let’s discuss some most used ‘Fields’ in a chart.

Axis – It is the X-Axis of the area chart. The fields section is currently assigned with Country Codes in the above image, and the same is reflected in the chart on the X-Axis.

Legend – This field is used to compare data present in a single field. When some field like Country is assigned in Legend, the chart will show the country various colours to compare them easily.

Values – This is the Y-Axis of the area chart.

5. Click on the drop-down button present at the end of the values field. Here you can apply some operators on the values field.

6. Power BI will reflect all the changes you made in the fields section on the chart. Here, our graph will change the shape depending on the operator and the resultant values on the Y-Axis.


Play with different visualizations and the fields settings to better learn the functioning of Power BI.

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