POWER BI 101 @SCALE

DATA STORYTELLING
AGENDA ❑ INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION: WHY POWER BI

❑ CH 0: POWER BI DESKTOP & SAMPLE

❑ ACCESSIBILITY (INSTALL & CHECK FOR VERSION)
❑ SAMPLE DASHBOARDS

❑ CH 1: INTRODUCTION TO POWER BI BASICS

❑ CH 1.1: GET DATA
❑ CH 1.2: ANALYZE DATA
❑ CH 1.3: VISUALIZE
❑ CH 1.4: PUBLISH
❑ CH 1.5: COLLABORATE

❑ CH 2: ADDITIONAL FEATURES FOR DATA STORYTELLING

❑ POWER BI RESOURCES

❑ Q&A
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 50% OF WORLDS DATA
HAS BEEN CREATED IN
THE LAST 3Y

IN THE NEXT 10Y DATA

WILL MULTIPLY BY 20

DATA IS GROWING
EXPONENTIALLY

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POWER OF VISUALIZATION
How many 9’s do you see?

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POWER OF VISUALIZATION
With a little bit of a highlight…

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INFLUENCE WHAT PEOPLE SEE

STOP WAR

PEACE NOW

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INFLUENCE WHAT PEOPLE SEE

STOP WAR

PEACE NOW

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INFLUENCE WHAT PEOPLE SEE

STOP WAR

PEACE NOW

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CHOOSING THE RIGHT VISUALS IS CRITICAL

Do you want to compare it to

something?

Do you to see how it relates to Do you want to show it over

something else? time?

Do you want to see everything

across your organization?

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BEST PRACTICES
DATA VISUALIZATION
Remove chart junk
• Chart junk is unnecessary or confusing visual elements that do not add value.
• Remove elements that are decorative or ornamental, such as three-dimensional chart effects.

Increase data-ink ratio

• Data-ink ratio refers to the “amount of ink used to display data" divided by “total ink used on visualization”.
• Make every pixel tell a story about your data.

Find the story in the data

• Use the right visualization to provide a specific insight.
• Identify and understand the story that the user is trying to tell and the relationship you are looking to show.
Knowing this information will help you select the proper visualization to best deliver the message.

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AGENDA ❑ INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION: WHY POWER BI

❑ CH 0: POWER BI DESKTOP & SAMPLE

❑ ACCESSIBILITY (INSTALL & CHECK FOR VERSION)
❑ SAMPLE DASHBOARDS

❑ CH 1: INTRODUCTION TO POWER BI BASICS

❑ CH 1.1: GET DATA
❑ CH 1.2: ANALYZE DATA
❑ CH 1.3: VISUALIZE
❑ CH 1.4: PUBLISH
❑ CH 1.5: COLLABORATE

❑ CH 2: ADDITIONAL FEATURES FOR DATA STORYTELLING

❑ POWER BI RESOURCES

❑ Q&A
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WHY POWER BI

February 2019

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POWER BI:
EXPERIENCE YOUR DATA
Any data, any way, anywhere

Secure
Gateway

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 POWER BI
ACTIVITY FLOW
Power BI Service

2 Publish to the Power BI service,

where you create new
visualizations or build
Dashboards; Share your Power BI Mobile
dashboards with others

Power BI Desktop

1 Bring data into

Power BI 3 View and interact with shared
Desktop, dashboards and reports in
and create a Power BI Mobile apps
report

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 POWER BI : DOWNLOAD & VERSION CHECK
Download Power BI
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/

The version check is important as many of the new features are enabled with the new version updates of Power BI 16
POWER BI : CHECK PREVIEW FEATURES

The preview check is important as many of the new features are enabled only with this option
POWER BI : CHECK FOR PRO LICENSE
Log into: app.powerbi.com

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EXPLORING THE DASHBOARDS SECTIONS
USE CASE OVERVIEW:
INFLUENCERS OF CRIME
Objective Data Analytics Insights Actions Outcomes
Framework
Execution
Elements

Fluency
of Data

Problem Data Data Exploratory Data Models and Data Data

Definition Collection Preparation Analysis Algorithms Visualization Product

Objective Key tasks Key Tasks Key Tasks

▪ To build a solution to ▪ Identification of Data sources and ▪ Crime categorization as ▪ Dashboard creation for crime &
better visualize social / data collection managed by the Spanish police workforce trend in Spain
Influencers of Crime

economic / environment ➢ Crime data for Spain & Italy/Finland force

trends in order to ➢ Population data for Spain & ▪ Study of crime rate change
understand policing Italy/Finland across time in provinces
demand and manage ➢ Workforce data for the 2 countries ▪ Police force structure & roles/
consequent deployment responsibilities study

Focus
▪ Compare crime trends
and workforce
deployment for Spanish
Police Forces with
Italy/Finland 20
DASHBOARD CREATION

1 Data Source 2 Data Preparation 3 Dashboard Creation

1. Crime Data (Province 1. Crime Data

Level) • Categorized Crime Types
• Arrests & Investigations into 6 broader buckets
• Detentions • Merged Arrests &
• Minor Arrests Investigations,
Detentions and Minor
2. Population Data Arrests data
(Province Level) 2. Population Data
• Restructured the data in
3. Workforce Data (Country the desired format
Level) suitable for Power BI
3. Workforce Data
Timeline: 2010 to 2017
• The country level data
was broken down at a
Granularity: Yearly
province level in the
proportion of population
count for each province

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AGENDA ❑ INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION: WHY POWER BI

❑ CH 0: POWER BI DESKTOP & SAMPLE

❑ ACCESSIBILITY (INSTALL & CHECK FOR VERSION)
❑ SAMPLE DASHBOARDS

❑ CH 1: INTRODUCTION TO POWER BI BASICS

❑ CH 1.1: GET DATA
❑ CH 1.2: ANALYZE DATA
❑ CH 1.3: VISUALIZE
❑ CH 1.4: PUBLISH
❑ CH 1.5: COLLABORATE

❑ CH 2: ADDITIONAL FEATURES FOR DATA STORYTELLING

❑ POWER BI RESOURCES

❑ Q&A
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TRANSFORMING DATA:
THE BUSINESS ANALYST ROLE

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GET DATA:
EASILY CONNECT, CLEAN AND MASHUP DATA

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ANALYZE:
BUILD POWERFUL MODELS AND FLEXIBLE MEASURES

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VISUALIZE:
CREATE STUNNING INTERACTIVE REPORTS

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PUBLISH:
SHARE INSIGHTS WITH OTHERS

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COLLABORATE:
EMPOWER YOUR ORGANIZATION

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AGENDA ❑ INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION: WHY POWER BI

❑ CH 0: POWER BI DESKTOP & SAMPLE

❑ ACCESSIBILITY (INSTALL & CHECK FOR VERSION)
❑ SAMPLE DASHBOARDS

❑ CH 1: INTRODUCTION TO POWER BI BASICS

❑ CH 1.1: GET DATA
❑ CH 1.2: ANALYZE DATA
❑ CH 1.3: VISUALIZE
❑ CH 1.4: PUBLISH
❑ CH 1.5: COLLABORATE

❑ CH 2: ADDITIONAL FEATURES FOR DATA STORYTELLING

❑ POWER BI RESOURCES

❑ Q&A
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TOOLTIP
Includes the details to
be highlighted when the
cursor hovers over the
visual
SPOTLIGHT
Highlights the key
visuals in a storytelling
flow of events
CROSS FILTERING
• Filtering of visuals to reflect the
parameters associated with the
selected filter.

• Can be edited through the “Edit

Interactions” under Format tab
in the ribbon.

• Multiple filters could be

selected using “ctrl”
HIERARCHY
Ability to drill down
and analyze data to
the lowest level of
granularity
COLOUR PATTERS: FOCUS KEY INSIGHTS
Colour patterns
for highlighting
the key insight

• Diverging
colour pattern

• Differentiated
colour option
BOOKMARK
Sequential Data
insights and story
flow.
CUSTOM VISUALS FROM MARKET PLACE
• Download customer visuals from market place
• Save frequently used custom visuals to local
drive
QUICK INSIGHTS (FROMPUBLISHEDDASHBOARD)
The data from the
published report can
be used for obtaining
quick insights and
visuals

• Visuals can be
copied to the
original report or
modified.
DAX (DATA ANALYSIS EXPRESSIONS)
Language to
define custom
calculations for:

• Calculated
Columns
• Measures
AGENDA ❑ INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION: WHY POWER BI

❑ CH 0: POWER BI DESKTOP & SAMPLE

❑ ACCESSIBILITY (INSTALL & CHECK FOR VERSION)
❑ SAMPLE DASHBOARDS

❑ CH 1: INTRODUCTION TO POWER BI BASICS

❑ CH 1.1: GET DATA
❑ CH 1.2: ANALYZE DATA
❑ CH 1.3: VISUALIZE
❑ CH 1.4: PUBLISH
❑ CH 1.5: COLLABORATE

❑ CH 2: ADDITIONAL FEATURES FOR DATA STORYTELLING

❑ POWER BI RESOURCES

❑ Q&A
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RESOURCES & REFERENCES
POWER BI BASICS
• Download Power BI
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/

• Microsoft Power BI guided learning tutorials

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guided-learning/gettingstarted#step-1

• Power BI community (for new updates and troubleshooting support)

https://community.powerbi.com/

• Marketplace to download custom visuals for Power BI

https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?product=power-bi-visuals&page=1&src=office

• Power BI Themes Gallery_ Microsoft

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Themes-Gallery/bd-p/ThemesGallery

Accenture Resources:
• Power BI Circle
https://circles.accenture.com/4ed86f7a-50a1-455f-af1e-08c70365f726?tab=discussions
• Power BI Learning Board
https://connectedlearning.accenture.com/learningboard/549033-power-bi-training-resources 40
POWER BI RESOURCES
Recording of Data to Dashboard with a sample dataset (Step-by-step)

Session 1: https://mediaexchange.accenture.com/media/t/0_6tl42m4g
Session 2: https://mediaexchange.accenture.com/media/t/0_u98py7dt

Dataset Link: https://kxdocuments.accenture.com/Contribution/b5558705-70f9-438b-a472-

cf5dae89ce84
(The dataset KX links also has the intermediate & final Power BI dashboards for the reference of the
participants)

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RESOURCES & REFERENCES
DATA VISUALIZATION BEST PRACTICES
Articles
• Best design practices for reports and visuals (whitepaper) - Power BI | Microsoft Docs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/visuals/power-bi-visualization-best-practices

Videos
• Data Visualization Module in the DDC virtual course (14 hrs., Northwestern University)
Module 2: Exploratory Analytics with Visualization

• Power BI visualization best practices by Marco Russo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tdkUYrzrio

• edX Course & Certification for Power BI

Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI

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