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Building bar charts

Building bar charts - Power BI Tutorial

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Building bar charts

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- [Instructor] A bar chart is a great way to show categorical information. For example in my consulting practice, I often use a bar chart to show different assortments or categories. And this example, let's show sales by location size. I'm in the reports view of a Power BI Workbook and I've gone ahead and built a data model with the exercise files. And I've already created a line chart in the reports view. So to create location size by sales, first let's select sales which is amount including tax and then location size. So that's extremely easy to create a very basic bar chart but what we can do is add some complexity to this. So we are using the bar chart as the type of visualization but we can also add in different features. For example, if we toggle over to the stacked bar chart, what we can then do is add in different colors. So example if we wanted to pull in service type, now we can see a breakdown across so we…

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