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File – Used for saving, opening, exporting, and publishing reports. You can also access settings and options.

  • Home – The main tab for importing data, transforming tables, creating visuals, and refreshing data.
  • Insert – Allows you to add visuals (charts, tables, slicers, images, text boxes, buttons, and shapes) to your report.
  • Modeling – Used to create and manage relationships between tables, define measures, and set up calculated columns.
  • View – Adjusts report layouts, themes, grid settings, and enables performance analyzer and selection pane.
  • Optimize – Used to improve performance, including query optimization, performance profiling, and column storage settings.
  • Help – Provides access to Power BI documentation, tutorials, support, and community forums.
  • Format – Allows customization of visual elements like colors, fonts, backgrounds, borders, and axis settings.

Data/Drill 

Core Charts and Visuals:

Custom Visuals (Available from AppSource):

Advanced Analytics Visuals:

This list is not exhaustive, as Power BI is constantly updated with new visuals and features. You can explore more visuals in the Visualizations Pane or by importing custom visuals from the Power BI Marketplace.

Format Page

  1. Page information
  2. Canvas Setting
    1. custom (Type of space)
    2. Height
    3. width
    4. Vertical alignment
  3. Canvas Background
    1. colour
    2. image (browse)
    3. image fit
    4. Transparency
  4. Wallpaper
  5. Filter panel
  6. Filter cards

Format Visual

Visual

Shape

  1. Shape
    1. Shape (Different types of shapes listed)
  2. Rotation
    1. All: All the items in the shape
    2. Shape: Use to adjust the rotation of the shape
    3. Text: use to adjust the shape of the text
  3. Style
  4. Action

General

image
  • Table
  • Matrix
  • Card & Multi-row Card
  • Scatter Chart
  • Waterfall Chart
  • Funnel Chart
  • Gauge
  • Treemap

📈 Advanced and Analytical Charts

These help in deeper data insights and comparisons:

  • Combo Chart (Line & Column)
  • Ribbon Chart
  • Decomposition Tree
  • Q&A Visual (Natural language querying)
  • KPI Visual
  • Histogram
  • R Visuals (Custom R script visuals)
  • Python Visuals (Custom Python script visuals)

🧠 AI-Powered Visuals

For leveraging machine learning and smart analysis:

  • Smart Narrative
  • Key Influencers
  • Forecasting (within line chart)
  • Anomaly Detection

🌐 Custom & Marketplace Visuals

You can explore many more by importing from Power BI’s Visual Marketplace, including:

  • Bullet charts
  • Sankey diagrams
  • Sunburst charts
  • Gantt charts
  • Radar charts
  • Timeline slicers
  • Heatmaps

(These may require additional configuration or extensions.)

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Great! Let’s transform that chart list into a polished study page you can use for notes or quick reference. Here’s a clean, structured layout — ideal for learning or teaching Power BI visuals:

📚 Power BI Visualization Chart Types

✅ Standard Visuals

Common charts used for general data representation:

Chart Type
Variants
Purpose
Column Chart
Clustered, Stacked, 100%
Compare values across categories
Bar Chart
Clustered, Stacked, 100%
Horizontal comparison of values
Line Chart
Trend analysis over time
Area Chart
Stacked, 100% Stacked
Cumulative totals over time
Pie Chart
Proportions of a whole
Donut Chart
Visual variation of pie chart
Table
Raw data in rows and columns
Matrix
Pivot-style view of data
Card
Single and Multi-row
Key figures and KPIs
Scatter Chart
Relationships between numeric values
Waterfall Chart
Progressive changes (e.g., profit flow)
Funnel Chart
Stage-wise data breakdown
Gauge
Progress towards a target
Treemap
Hierarchical data with area size

🧠 Advanced & AI-Powered Visuals

Designed for deeper insights and predictive power:

Visual Type
Description
Combo Chart
Combines column & line charts
Ribbon Chart
Visualizes rank changes over time
Decomposition Tree
Drill-down into dimensions
Q&A Visual
Ask questions in natural language
Smart Narrative
Auto-generated insights and summaries
Key Influencers
Shows factors impacting your data
KPI Visual
Measures progress against goals
Forecasting
Trend prediction (used in line charts)
Anomaly Detection
Highlights unusual data points

🔍 Custom Visuals (Import from Marketplace)

Enhance Power BI with specialized visuals:

  • 📌 Bullet Chart
  • 🔁 Sankey Diagram
  • 🌞 Sunburst Chart
  • 📆 Gantt Chart
  • 🧭 Radar Chart
  • 📍 Timeline Slicer
  • 🔥 Heatmap
  • 🧬 R & Python Visuals

Let me know if you'd like to turn this into a downloadable cheat sheet or personalize it based on how you use Power BI — like dashboards, reports, or analysis presentations. Want me to help with that?