Microsoft Power BI Visualizations
Source: My personal notes from Microsoft training
Use Case - Telling a Story with Data
Section titled “Use Case - Telling a Story with Data”Know the users, audience for a report/dashboard and their needs and their questions. Support data exploration and analysis.
Design factors for Business Intelligence (BI)
Section titled “Design factors for Business Intelligence (BI)”- Audience - user groups
- Platform - mobile, embedded, public, print, holographic, tablet, other
- User experience (UI/UX)- layout, colour, brand, Accessibility, performance (latency, responsive)
- Data analysis - data model, visualizations, queries (PowerBI DAX)
Design Process using Design Thinking
Section titled “Design Process using Design Thinking”- Understand users and their problems
- Gather other requirements
- Design and idea creation
- Sketching and layout with users, data visualizations, potential queries
- Add platform features, branding
- Test, iterate with users
- Deploy
Design System
Section titled “Design System”If available, reuse an existing design system with these elements:
- Colours - minimize contrast
- Typography - font, text, page templates with components
- Page Dimensions: width, scrolling
- Spacing: between sections, visualizations, margins
- Notes: placements and colours of call outs
- Tables: style preset, row padding
- Text blocks: reading width
Power BI Features
Section titled “Power BI Features”Q: Should you use single visual reports? Pin the visual instead of the page. Avoid single visual report tiles due to lack of caching.
Q: How to version control Power BI files? Power BI supports git version control.
See Also
Section titled “See Also”- Data Visualization - Data Visualization practices on how to present data