Ribbon is a new visualization that has recently become part of the Power BI reporting platform. When is it used? If you want to show some indicators, for example sales revenue or total costs in relation to time, you will use either a Line or Column chart. If you hesitate between these two visualizations, you can use Ribbon, which represents the best of both!
Histogram is a diagram that is used for the graphical presentation of the statistical distribution of values. It consists of columns, arranged in descending order, which represent the frequency of their repetition. Excel 2016 provides the ability to create two types of charts: Histogram and Pareto. Pareto differs in that it is a combination of two charts: columns and lines. Columns show values, and the line illustrates their cumulative growth.
Purpose of PowerBI Desktop application is to create reports on a local machine and publish them in the cloud for users who can see them anytime, at any moment, by Internet browser on a PC or a mobile device. Managers need to get clear, simple and visually nice reports. It seems that PowerBI meets all given criteria. In a text that follows I will describe various ways to create reports in PowerBI Desktop.
When making Marketing Plan one of the activities being carried out is the analysis of competition. How strong is our competition? There are several ways to find this out, and this is perhaps most easily accomplished by tracking revenue and profit of competitors over several years. The following text will show you several Excel charts which should show where is our company and where are competitors on the market.
It’s not too difficult to create a chart, but you need to choose the type that best reflects our data. Excel has a multitude of charts, and every one of them suits best certain types of data. In the text that follows you will meet most commonly used charts, with suggestions on how to choose the right one that will meet your needs.