Summary  
This chapter shows how to build and customize dashboard visuals—including headline cards, multidimensional matrices, detailed tables, and filled maps—by binding data fields, adjusting formatting, sorting results, applying conditional color scales, and enabling interactive filtering via slicers.  

General domain of usage  
Business intelligence dashboarding and data visualization

This chapter adds four essential visual types to the Summit Gear dashboard: card visuals for headline KPI numbers, a matrix for multi-dimensional revenue breakdown by category and segment, a table for product-level detail, and a filled map showing revenue distribution across US states.

You'll build three new report pages (KPIs, Detail, and Geography), sort the product table by revenue, and style the map with a color scale that matches the dashboard palette. By the end of the chapter the dashboard has a complete set of visual building blocks ready to be wired together with slicers and filters in the next chapter.

What is the key difference between a table visual and a matrix visual in Power BI?

Master the skills needed to turn raw data into professional, interactive reports using Power BI. You'll connect to data sources, clean and transform data with Power Query, build data models, write DAX measures, and publish polished dashboards to Power BI Service. No prior experience required.

Get hands-on experience with Power BI Desktop: understand where it fits in the modern data stack, install it, explore the interface, connect to your first dataset, and build your first bar chart.

Master the skills needed to clean, transform, and combine data using Power Query – from filtering rows and adding columns to merging tables and reshaping data with pivot operations.

Explore the essentials of relational data modeling and DAX – build star schemas, define relationships, write measures, and use time intelligence functions to answer real business questions.

Dive into the fundamentals of Power BI visuals – choose the right chart type, configure slicers and filters, add drillthrough navigation, and create bookmark-driven interactive experiences.

Transform the way you present data by applying layout and design principles, building multi-page reports, setting up row-level security, and publishing to Power BI Service with scheduled refresh.

Gain a solid understanding of the end-to-end Power BI workflow by completing a guided project – from data preparation and modeling to building a multi-page dashboard and publishing it to the Service.

Tables, Matrices, Cards, and Maps

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