06 Sep Power BI – Create a Column Chart for Visualization
Power BI has various default data visualization components. Let us see what is a Column Chart Chart and how to create a Gauge Chart.
What is a Column Chart
A column chart uses vertical bars to represent data. The height of each bar is proportional to the value it represents. It is also known as a vertical bar chart. For example, use it to show responses to survey questions.
Each category is represented by a vertical bar in a column chart. The horizontal axis i.e. the x-axis typically displays the categories, while the vertical axis i.e. the y-axis displays the values.
Create a Column Chart in Power BI
After opening Power BI and clicking Blank Report or opening your previous project, the Power BI layout will be visible.
Go to the Visualizations pane on the right and click Stacked Column Chart. After clicking, the following is visible:
For the values, select the Category and Sum of Profit columns. Just select and it will automatically place the x-axis and y-axis. We have set the Sum of Profit by Category:
Let us format the Column chart properly. To change the title, title position, title background color, increase the text size of the x and y axis, change the color, go to the Visualizations pane, and click Format your visual. We have changed the column color also:
Above, we have also set the data labels visible just above every bar.
We renamed the page to Column Chart and saved it with Ctrl+S:
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