Power BI 

Introduction

Power BI is a service provided by Microsoft for business analytics that helps to visualize data and share it across people of and on different platforms. It converts or builds reports on data, taken from different data sources to build an interactive Dashboard.

As Power Bi is robust and enterprise-graded, It is not only used for modeling and real-time analytics but also for custom development. It is fast and simple with the capability of taking data from an excel sheet or a local database or from any other data source.

You can use three different elements of Power BI. That is  Power BI Desktop, Power BI service (on the web), and Power BI Mobile.



Building Blocks of Power BI

Power BI consists of five building blocks which are: Visualization, Dashboards, Reports, Apps, and Datasets. This is also known as Power BI content which exists in the workspace. A normal flow consists of all the building blocks. Let see in detail about these blocks:


1. Visualization:- Visualisation or visual is a type of chart build by a Power BI designer. It is used to display the data from datasets and reports.



2. DataSet:-  The file or the source which contains the data is known as a dataset. For Example, an excel sheet, SQL database, Text or CSV file, etc.



3. Dashboard:- It is a single screen with interactive visuals, text, and graphics.




4. Report:-  A report is one or more pages that contain visual,  text, and graphics together to make a report. 




5. App:- A designer can bind and share the related dashboard and report together through an app.













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