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Power Bi Charts
By Surendra Prajapat

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Stacked bar chart
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Stacked
stylecolumn chart
• Use this when you want to compare different values of the same measure, side by
side, or when you need to display different measures that are a part of the same
whole. The bars are horizontally oriented rows.

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Clustered barMaster
chart title style Column chart
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• Similar to the stacked bar chart, but instead of comparing different measures
within the same bar, with a clustered bar chart you can compare different
measures side by side.

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100% Stacked
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100% Stacked Column chart

• Similar to the stacked bar chart, but with each measure using a slice of each bar,
which always corresponds to the entire width available (100%).

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Line
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title style
• Use this to display the trend of some measures over time. Usually the y-axis has a range that
does not include zero.
• Similar to the line chart, use this when you want to display cumulative data rather than sequences
of points. Usually, the y-axis range begins at zero, and there is only one measure. This looks like
a line chart wherein the areas are filled with layers of colors.

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Line
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• Use this when you need to display measures with different scales, such as
currency and percentage, or different value ranges.

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Line
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• The same as the line and stacked column chart, but using clustered columns
instead of stacked columns.

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Waterfall chart
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• Use this to display cumulative data, highlighting for each value its positive or
negative value. The initial and final value columns usually start on the horizontal
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reports columns between them, making it look like a waterfall or bridge.

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Scatter
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• Use this when you want to show possible correlations between two measures.

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Pie chart
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• Use this to display the distribution of values of one or more measures. The values
appear as pieces of the pie, with the larger values taking up larger slices.
However, using pie charts is not a best practice.

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Donuttochart
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• Similar to the pie chart, but with a donut or tire-like graphical representation.
However, using donut charts is not a best practice.

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Treemap
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• Similar to a pie chart, but using a rather different graphical representation, wherein the values are
represented by colored rectangles on a page. It could be an alternative to a pie chart, but it is
equally unreadable when you have many elements in it.

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Map
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• Use this to display geographical data with variable-sized circular shapes on
Bing maps.

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Filled map
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• Similar to the map, but the data is represented by colored overlay areas.

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Table
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• Use this to display data in a textual form as a simple table, where every attribute
and every measure is a single column in the result.

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Matrix
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• This extends the table, making it possible to group the measures by rows and
columns.

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Funnel
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• Similar to the stacked bar chart, but with a single measure and a different
graphical representation, wherein the rows are stacked in order, which makes
the chart look like a funnel.

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Gauge
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• Use this to display a single measure against a goal. This chart resembles a gauge
style that is common in cars.

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Multi-row card
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• Use this to display different measures and attributes for each instance of an
entity, each placed on a different colored and graphical card.

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Card
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• Use this to display a single numerical value of a measure textually, placed on a
colored and graphical card.

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KPI
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• Use this to display a single value with a trend line chart in the background,
highlighting its performance with colors.

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• Use this to filter one or more charts by selecting values of an attribute.

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R script
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• Use this to display charts generated by R-language code.

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