April 2024 Power BI features (Stacked % Chart, Custom Lines & Enhanced Copilot)
📊My Video Content Website
https://learnwithritesh.graphy.com
📊My Official Blog Website
https://dancesingwithdata.com
Reporting
New Visual – 100% Stacked Area Chart
Introducing the new 100% Stacked Area Chart, now available in our core visuals gallery. These visuals display the relative percentage of multiple data series in stacked areas, where the total always equals 100%. It’s perfect for showing the proportion of individual series to the whole and how they change over time. Find it in the visual gallery, on-object dialog, or format pane, right next to the Stacked Area Chart. Give it a try and share your feedback with us!
For more detailed information about this new visual, and the new line enhancements you can read our article: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pbicor...
Line enhancements
Take your line charts to the next level with our new line control features.
Adjust line color transparency under Lines - Colors - Transparency.
Control the color and transparency of each series by selecting them in the ‘Apply settings to’ dropdown.
Use Monotone and the new Cardinal smooth type for full control of smooth lines.
Choose from before, center, and after step lines to align your visual with your story.
Try out these new features and enhance your line charts.
These new line enhancements are just the beginning – there is more to come. Try them out and stay ahead of the curve. We would love to hear about your experience and the amazing things you can achieve with these new features.
Enhance Q&A with Copilot-generated Linguistic Relationships
Improving your linguistic schema is an important step in making sure that the Q&A visual can understand the wide range of questions people might ask about their data. This is why, back in September, we added a new section into the Q&A setup menu to help you add linguistic relationships to teach Q&A about words which qualify or relate your data.
But we also know that coming up with all the different words people might be using to refer to your data can take time and effort, and we’ve been working on ways to make that process easier for you! In November, we introduced a way for you to quickly generate new synonyms for the names of tables and columns in your model; this month, we’ve introduced the same functionality for linguistic relationships!
When you open a report with a Q&A visual, if you have Copilot enabled and you’ve already added synonyms, you’ll now see a banner prompting you to get relationships with Copilot as well.
Unlike with synonyms, Copilot-generated relationships will not be used to understand natural language inputs until you have approved them, so make sure you accept the ones which work for your model!
Allow Copilot to help interpret Q&A questions.
You can also now use Copilot to improve the Q&A engine’s term recognition when you ask questions! This new feature will trigger when you ask Q&A a question which uses words or phrases which Q&A doesn’t recognize, but which it detects might be referring to data entities like tables or columns. Then, Copilot will also check those unknown words or phrases to see if there is any reasonable match — and, if so, return the answer as a visual as though a suggested synonym had been applied.
This feature is not a replacement for synonyms! In fact, adding synonyms for the entities in your semantic model is even more important to create good matches, as they increase the surface area to check for similarities. It will widen the range of inputs Q&A will recognize, but like a multiplier, it will improve recognition for well-modeled data much better than it will for poorly modeled data.
This feature will be automatically enabled when you choose to get synonyms with Copilot, but you can also turn it on or off manually in the suggestion settings menu in the Synonyms tab in Q&A setup.
