Power BI | Actionable reporting - part 3 - gauge visual

Do you use gauge visuals in your report? How effective are they on a dashboard? Are they easy to read and to understand for the viewer?

In today’s reality, creating reports that are just showing some numbers is not enough. Actionable Reporting is about getting insights fast: the faster you learn what’s happening with your performance, the faster you can decide what to do next.

When looking at a report visual, you should be able to tell right away if your performance:

1️⃣ is it good or bad
2️⃣ how good or how bad

How much time does it cost you to answer any of those questions by looking at a traditional report visual?

A frequently used visual in Power BI is the gauge visual.

Look at the left visual. Is this actionable & understandable for the reader…….? There is a better way to make reports interesting, meaningful, understandable and actionable with the use of a different visual.

Here is an example how this might look like in your report, a before vs after, with the use of a Zebra BI visual.

The comparison is actually key here. We want to show both the absolute variance as well as relative variance. And there is enough space to add the gross margin expressed in percent.

Why is the gauge visual not actionable?

  1. Takes up valuable space on a dashboard
  2. Too little information
  3. Have often confusing color coding and scaling.
  4. They don’t display the variances
  5. Letters M denoting millions should be in the chart title and not in the data labels
  6. Redundancy in the title

 

Why using Zebra BI?

  1. Easy to use without having to create extra measures
  2. Add formula entry from the dropdown menu in the visual itself
  3. Build reports 10x faster, get immediate visualization of your data
  4. Automatic applying of IBCS standards
    1. Increase in speed of analysis by +46%
    2. Improvement in decision accuracy by +61%

Need help with transforming your data into actionable reports? As an official Zebra BI partner we can help you with this.

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