Optimizing dashboards

Dashboards are a useful way to tell a story using data and visuals in Power BI but if they are not optimized to the screen they are being presented on or if the dashboard takes a long time to load, they lose their effectiveness. In this section, we'll see how we can optimize dashboards for these scenarios to make them the most useful starting place for Power BI information consumers.

Configuring views of a dashboard

To recap, Power BI is an online service that allows organizations to see the most important information from anywhere. This is accomplished using a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) website at https://www.powerbi.com as well as mobile apps for iOS and Android phones and tablets and Windows devices.

However, since these device screens can range from small hand-held sizes to very large, dashboards being created can be consumed optimally for every screen size. Large screen devices such as desktop web browsers and tablets will use the same layout...