This Edureka Power BI Dashboard Tutorial will take you through step by step creation of Power BI dashboard. It helps you learn different functionalities present in Power BI tool with a demo on superstore dataset. You will learn how to create a Power BI dashboard by taking out multiple insights from superstore dataset and representing them visually.

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Agenda
What are the
interfaces in Power BI
What are the
functionalities of
Power BI
How to create a
Dashboard in Power
BI How to use Power
BI in a real-time
scenario
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What Is Power BI?
Now, let’s understand what is Power BI

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What Is Power BI?
▪ Power BI is a cloud-based business intelligence tool that provides interactive visualizations with SSBI
capabilities

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What Is a Dashboard?
Let’s understand what is a Dashboard in Power BI

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What is a Dashboard?
▪ A Power BI dashboard is a single page, often called a canvas, that uses visualizations to tell a story. Because it
is limited to one page, a well-designed dashboard contains only the most-important elements of that story.

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Dashboard VS Report
Capability Dashboards Reports
Pages One page One or more pages
Data sources
One or more reports and one or more datasets
per dashboard
A single dataset per report
Pinning
Can pin existing visualizations (tiles) only from
current dashboard to your other dashboards
Can pin visualizations (as tiles) to any of your
dashboards. Can pin entire report pages to any
of your dashboards.
Filtering Can't filter or slice Many different ways to filter, highlight, and slice
Set alerts
Can create alerts to email you when certain
conditions are met
No
Feature
Can set one dashboard as your "featured"
dashboard
Cannot create a featured report
Natural language queries Available from dashboard Not available from reports
Can change visualization type
No, if a report owner changes the visualization
type in the report, the dashboard does not
update
Yes
Customization
Can do things with the visualizations (tiles) like
move and arrange, resize, add links, rename,
delete, and display full screen. But the data and
visualizations themselves are read-only.
In Reading view you can publish, embed, filter,
and more. In Editing view you can do everything
mentioned so far and so much more.

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Dataset - Superstore
▪ Data of Superstore in US of an organization.
▪ Data was collected between 2011 - 2014

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Insights
Let us now look at the insights needed.

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Insight 1 – Overall Performance
▪ Overall trend of Sales and profits of
Superstore.
▪ Performance of different regions.
▪ Profitable and Non- Profitable Regions.

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Insight 2 – Performance of Different States
▪ Performance of each state.
▪ States showing opportunity to grow.

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Insight 3 – Segment Performance
▪ Performance of segments of the
Superstore in different states and
region.

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Insight 4 – Revenue Generation
▪ Revenue generated by each category of product.
▪ Category/Product hampering revenue growth

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Power BI Installation
Let’s understand now install Power BI.

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Power BI Installation

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Demo
Lets look at the capability of Power BI Desktop

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Power BI Trends
Lets try to understand the current market trends for Power BI

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Power BI Job Trends

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Power BI Salary Trend