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User-Oriented Design in Power BI

Learn how to design Power BI visualizations and reports with users in mind.

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Design with Users in Mind

In this course you learn how to design with users in mind.

Optimize Visualizations

You’ll get introduced to some best practices in data visualization and optimize your visualizations to be more accessible to visually impaired individuals. This course also teaches you when to create paginated reports, a prerequisite for the official PL-300 exam!
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  1. 1

    Design with Users in Mind

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    In this chapter, you will learn how a design is made using focal points to guide users naturally between visuals. You'll also explore some of the accessibility options for reports that Power BI offers.

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    Tracking focal points
    50 xp
    Why focal points
    50 xp
    Using focal points
    100 xp
    Designing for accessibility
    50 xp
    Reviewing accessibility options
    100 xp
    Accessibility in practice
    50 xp
    Using smart narratives
    100 xp
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    Readying for Production and Paginated Reports

    Let’s get ready for production! In this chapter, you'll explore some best practices to ready your report, and you'll learn when you should (and shouldn’t) create paginated reports.

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    Readying for production
    50 xp
    Choosing a SKU
    100 xp
    Configuring the report
    100 xp
    Paginated reports
    50 xp
    Choosing a report type
    100 xp
    Creating paginated reports
    50 xp
    Create a paginated report
    100 xp
    Make it a matrix
    100 xp
    Add a line chart
    100 xp
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Maarten Van den Broeck HeadshotMaarten 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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