Summary
What a fun chapter! These more advanced features of Power BI are phenomenal. They allow you to get a much deeper understanding of how data points in your dataset interact with, influence, and affect your business.
In this chapter, we covered how to identify outliers and anomalies in your data. You saw, ever so briefly, what makes an outlier, then quickly moved away from the math. Power BI can detect them for you, no math required.
Power BI is an awesome tool for analyzing your data over time. Some visualizations allow you to add a play axis that you can add a date field to; for the rest, you added the Play Axis slicer visualization to the page and made every visual change over time.
With grouping, we created our own subgroups within a column. You then used binning to change a continuous, numeric column into a categorical field. These two interrelated concepts allow you to simplify visuals or bin together smaller data points.
The key influencers chart allows you...
