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Create an Interactive Report to Uncover Insights
In this lab, you’ll build an interactive Power BI report designed to help users explore sales performance from multiple angles. Starting with core visuals, you’ll organize the report layout, apply consistent formatting, and introduce slicers to enable dynamic filtering. You’ll also enhance a time-series visual with an average reference line to provide analytical context and add a concise insight annotation that explains what the data is showing. By the end of the lab, you’ll have a clean, executive-ready report that supports exploration, comparison, and data-driven discussion.
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Challenge
Build Core Visuals for Category and Monthly Trends
Your stakeholders need a report that quickly communicates what’s selling and how sales are trending over time. You'll start by creating a bar chart that allows them to compare performance across product categories and a line chart that helps reveal month‑to‑month trends. These two visuals form the foundation of your report and set the stage for deeper exploration later in the lab.
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Add Slicers for Interactive Filtering
In this objective, you'll add and configure slicers in Power BI Desktop (2025) to filter visuals by year or region, enabling intuitive and user-driven analysis.
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Highlight Trends with Analytics and Add an Insight Annotation
You'll apply analytics features to visuals and write a concise annotation that communicates a meaningful insight from the data.
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Final Objective
Welcome to the final objective! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking End Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
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