CHAPTER 4
Charts for Business Intelligence
Charts may be a staple of spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, but that does not mean that you cannot use them in dashboards (and in BI generally) to great effect. The main thing to remember if you want your dashboards to be striking and memorable is that a BI chart needs to convey key information succinctly. So you may well find that you end up avoiding the more traditional (not to say overused) chart types in your BI reports in favor of less tired ways of visualizing your data.
Charts have been around in SSRS for nearly 15 years, so I won’t provide a chart primer here. What I want to do is to ...
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