In this video, we will review visualizations and properties in Power BI Desktop, let's get started. Visualizations add insights into data and can help with telling a story of business performance. Power BI supports various out of the box visualizations, such as bar charts, line charts, area chart, pie and donut charts, maps, tables, scatter chart, cards and KPIs, R and Python scripted chart among others. In Power BI, adding visualizations is as easy as point and click or drag and drop. Let's navigate to the Fields pane and begin building out our report. The first visualization we wanna include is a line chart. Line charts are great for showing numeric data over time. So, let's navigate to the Fields pane, we'll expand the Sales table and here, we have an option of either pointing and clicking to add total sales to the value section or dragging and dropping. If we point and click by default, we'll get a bar chart. We'll point and click on the total sales. See, on the left-hand side on the report canvas, we've got a bar chart but we wanna change this to a line chart. So, we can do that easily by going to the Visualizations pane and clicking on Line Chart. Now, we need to add to this chart, the axis. So, we'll navigate to the Order Date and expand that table and click on the Calendar Year Hierarchy. We'll expand this visualization by going to the corner of the visual and with our mouse, sliding that across the screen. Here, we've got a line visualization. This tells us the performance of our sales across time. Here, if we come to the Visualizations pane and click on the Format paintbrush, what we can see is that we can adjust data colors, data labels, title, border, and more. Here, we're going to adjust the data labels. We're going to switch this to on by clicking on the slider. Here, we've got the data labels at each data point, now added to our visualization and if we hover over the visual, we get additional information, such as a tool tip that tells us the exact sales amount at that date and time. We'll navigate to the Visualizations pane under the Format Painter brush and we'll go to expand the title and we'll change this title to show sales by date. We'll change the font color to white and the background color to a dark gray and we'll decrease that by just clicking on the name of the section title again and here, we're going to add a border, so we'll navigate down to the Border section and we'll turn that on by clicking to the right to show on for the slider. The next chart we wanna show is sales by product category and we want that to be a donut chart. Donut charts are great at showing the relationship of a part to a whole and they're best used when there are five or fewer categories. So, let's go to the Visualizations pane and we'll click on the Donut Chart. We'll navigate back to the Sales table and expand that and we'll drag and drop Sales into the Value section and we'll go to the Product Category table and expand that and drag Product Category into the Legend. We'll change the size of this visual by clicking on the visual and sliding with your mouse all the way to the left-hand side using the border of the visualization and here, we see that electronics accounts for the majority of our sales, followed by home and garden and clothing and then, a third visualization that we want to add is a clustered bar chart. So, we'll go to the Visualizations pane, click on Clustered Bar Chart, we'll navigate back to our Sales table and expand the table and drag and drop the total sales into the Value section and we'll go to Product Subcategory and drag Product Subcategory name into the Axes section. It's important to know that even while the name of the visualization or the name of the columns within your data model, while they may be set, you can always change them by double clicking on the axes and retyping that. So, we can say, product subcategory, taking out the name. So, you can always rename the axes within your visualizations by double clicking on the value within the axes or the Values or Legend section. Now here's a tip, if you want to apply the same formatting of one visualization across all visualizations, we can use what's called the Format Painter. So, if we click on the line chart and we know that we're clicked on the line chart because our visualization will have a border around it to indicate which visual we're on, we can select from the Home tab, the Format Painter, and then click on the visualization that hasn't been formatted and it will format that visualization for us. So, we'll do that again, we'll click on Format Painter and we'll apply it to the visualization that doesn't have any formatting. Now, what that has done is, it has applied the border as well as the formatting that we applied to the title across all our visualizations. It saves us time, so we're not having to individually format each visualization. Now, here with this particular analysis, we're able to tell that our sales have increased over time, that most of our sales is attributed to electronic and that within electronics, home, audio and theater, TV and video, camera, phone and video appear to be, which attributes most of our total sales. So, we'll name this report page our sales analysis and we'll just add a title to this report. So, we're gonna decrease that line visualization and we're going to go to the Insert tab and click on Text Box and we'll use the border, we'll use the border of the text box to move that visualization to where we want it to be, centered at the top of the page and we're gonna type the sales analysis. We'll highlight our title and we'll change the formatting and the sizing of this title. We're also gonna change this to be centered in the middle of our page and that's how you apply visualizations to a report page and it gives us insight into our data. This concludes this section on visualizations and thank you for watching.
