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
- Page information
- Canvas Setting
- custom (Type of space)
- Height
- width
- Vertical alignment
- Canvas Background
- colour
- image (browse)
- image fit
- Transparency
- Wallpaper
- Filter panel
- Filter cards
Format Visual
Visual
Shape
- Shape
- Shape (Different types of shapes listed)
- Rotation
- All: All the items in the shape
- Shape: Use to adjust the rotation of the shape
- Text: use to adjust the shape of the text
- Style
- Action
General
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- 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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📚 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
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