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Report Design in Power BI

Continue your data visualization journey where you'll learn practical techniques for incorporating DAX measures and progressive disclosure in your reports.

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Course Description

Continue your data visualization journey with this course on designing reports in Power BI. You'll learn practical techniques for incorporating DAX measures and calculations in your reports—empowering users to filter, highlight values, and group data effectively. Through hands-on exercises, you'll also be introduced to progressive disclosure, a user experience (UX) technique to make reporting easier before discovering how to change report themes and optimize them for mobile users.
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    Enhancing the Report

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    Data visualization is about more than choosing the right visual. It's also about having—or forming—data in the right way to tell your story. You’ll learn practical techniques for incorporating DAX measures and calculations in your reports, allowing you to filter, review existing filters, highlight values, and group data effectively.

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    Enhance visuals with DAX
    50 xp
    Highlight the median value
    100 xp
    Improve engagement with DAX
    50 xp
    Perform filtered calculations
    100 xp
    Review the filter context
    100 xp
    Highlight the smallest value
    100 xp
    Bucket by department
    100 xp
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    Progressive Disclosure

    In this chapter, you’ll discover how to apply a UX technique called progressive disclosure. It makes the reporting experience behave more like a web application, by allowing users more control over the visuals.

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    Progressive disclosure
    50 xp
    Progressive disclosure requirements
    100 xp
    Progressive disclosure in Power BI
    50 xp
    Budgets vs expenditures over time
    100 xp
    Show and hide departments
    100 xp
    Choose between visuals
    100 xp
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    Customizing the View

    Don't feel limited by Power BI's default theme—make it your own! In this chapter, you’ll learn how to change your theme, where to go to get inspiration, and how you can make your own custom themes.

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    Create a custom theme
    50 xp
    Guidance on themes
    100 xp
    Modifying a theme
    50 xp
    Change default font sizes
    100 xp
    Modify color choices
    100 xp
    Alter the filter pane
    100 xp
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    Design for Mobile Devices

    In this final chapter, you’ll discover ways to optimize your report for mobile users.

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    Design for mobile devices
    50 xp
    Mobile layout capabilities
    100 xp
    Creating a mobile design
    50 xp
    Create a mobile layout
    100 xp
    Progressive disclosure on mobile
    100 xp
    Make it mobile-friendly
    100 xp
    Congratulations!
    50 xp

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Data Analyst

Datasets

Exercises and DatasetsDataCamp vs. Local Experience

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Carl Rosseel

Prerequisites

Reports in Power BIIntermediate DAX in Power BI
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Maarten Van den Broeck

Senior Content Developer at DataCamp

Maarten is an aquatic ecologist and teacher by training and a data scientist by profession. He is also a certified Power BI and Tableau data analyst. After his career as a PhD researcher at KU Leuven, he wished that he had discovered DataCamp sooner. He loves to combine education and data science to develop DataCamp courses. In his spare time, he runs a symphonic orchestra.
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Kevin Feasel

CTO, Envizage

Kevin is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and CTO at Envizage, where he specializes in data analytics with T-SQL and R, forcing Spark clusters to do his bidding, fighting with Kafka, and pulling rabbits out of hats on demand. He is the lead contributor to Curated SQL (https://curatedsql.com) and author of PolyBase Revealed (forthcoming). A resident of Durham, North Carolina, he can be found cycling the trails along the triangle whenever the weather's nice enough.
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