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M. Ehrenmueller-JensenSelf-Service AI with Power BI Desktophttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6231-3_2

2. The Insights Feature

Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen1 
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CEO, Savory Data, Alkoven, Austria
 

To get answers with Q&A (see previous chapter), you have to come up with your own question. In some cases, the question is not so easy to formulate—it would be much easier to just click on a data point in your visualization and let Power BI find the reason why this data point is different from the others (e.g., why the value for one month is much higher or lower than that for the previous month). The Insights feature does exactly that. Again, this functionality is dependent on metadata available from the data model. An insight ...

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