How to Use Power BI Data Set Quick Insights and Data Subset Quick Insights

By: Mike Pierre-Louis
 
 
Have you ever been in a situation at work where you need to review a really complicated report but are extremely pressed for time? I know I have, and my guess is just about everyone reading this blog post has experienced a similar situation before.

As Microsoft continues to develop and improve Power BI, the list of features continues to grow. One of the latest Power BI features is Quick Insights, a useful tool that can help data novices become data experts in minutes. With Quick Insights, we can gain additional information from a specific subset of data within a report (prior to, the limitation was originally on a complete data set).

For this blog post, we’ll be focusing on two different features of Quick Insights, “Data Set Quick Insights” and “Data Subset Quick Insights”.
 

Data Set Quick Insights

Data Set “Quick Insights” was released a while back but it’s really useful if you need to review a large data set quickly before a meeting or presentation. Here’s how to access Data Set Quick Insights.

1. Go to the Power BI online portal
2. Click on the workspace where the report is in
3. Click on Datasets
4. Click on the content settings
5. Click on Get Quick Insights

 

 
This will begin to generate a set of dashboard-like analysis against the data set, which is both easy and fast to consume. See example below:
 

 

Data Subset Quick Insights

Next is Data Subset Quick Insights. This feature was recently released and it presents a revolutionary way for anyone to analyze a report. Here’s how to get to it:

1. Go to the Power BI online portal
2. Click on your report
3. Right click on the data you’d like to interrogate
4. Click on Analyze
5. Click on the question relevant to your data

 

 
With this feature, anyone can review a report and get helpful and impactful insights into their data.
 

 
As pictured above, certain questions become easier to answer with the help of the powerful features from Power BI.
 

Learn More About Power BI

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Questions?

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