Part III. Adding data visualizations

Reporting Services includes a wide variety of options for displaying information as a data visualization, as you learn in the chapters of Part III. We begin by describing how to work with chart controls and how to apply basic formatting to charts in Chapter 17. Then we delve into more advanced chart layout options by exploring properties for controlling the color palette, vertical and horizontal axes, series, and pie slices in Chapter 18.

A key performance indicator is a special type of data visualization that you can add to a report to monitor progress to goals. In Chapter 19, we show you the many options available for using a gauge as a key performance indicator. Next, in Chapter 20, we introduce the new indicator ...

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