Everything you need to know about Line Charts! Once you’ve connected to some data, you may want to build a Line Chart. Line Charts are easy to build, and more importantly, they are easy for people to understand.Line charts are excellent for showing data that has a time-based element. They…
Power BI is an extremely powerful piece of software, so it’s especially disappointing when Microsoft bills it as “data visualization” software and completely fails on small (but essential) things that take Data Viz from existing to excellent. This post explores one of these fails. We’re going to use a simple…
You probably don’t need legends on your Line Charts. Series Labels are an option on Line and Area charts and allows you to get rid of your Legend. Why would you want to get rid of your legend? We’ll cover that too! We’re going to use a Power BI report with…
This post is about how to implement basic formatting in a Line Chart in Power BI. When I say “basic” formatting, I mean what you should do EVERY time you build a Line Chart to make it as easy for your users to understand. For this post (and video) we’re…
To learn how to make a Line Chart, we’re going to start off with a report that already has Excel data connected. If you need to learn how to connect data, go watch the Connecting to Excel Data post first. If you’d like to use the same Power BI file I…
