The performance of Smart Narratives in Power BI particularly favors certain visuals that supply straightforward, summarizable insight for Smart Narrative that it can readily interpret and describe. The following is a discussion of the types of best visualizations with Smart Narrative:
Cards and KPI Visuals:
Reason for efficacy: These visuals display key metrics (like total sales, profit, etc., or count of items) in a very simple, one-number view, which Smart Narrative is able to summarize with minimum effort.
Advantage: Smart Narrative can describe the metric and provide insights, such as growth percentages, trends, and performance against goals.
Bar and Column Charts:
Reason for efficacy: These visuals represent categorical data, which makes it easy for Smart Narrative to summarize now how categories differ, for example, sales by region, profit by product, etc.
Advantage: Smart Narrative can give clear insights regarding the highest/lowest-performing categories and explain each other's relative performance.
Line Charts:
Reason for efficacy: Line charts are good for analyzing trends over time, whereas Smart Narrative will be able to highlight the important trends or key changes such as sales going up or down, revenue, etc.
Advantage: Smart Narrative will explain trends, growth rates, and outliers, giving meaningful context to time-based data.
Pie and Donut Charts:
Reason for efficacy: These charts show the proportions or shares of the whole, and the Smart Narrative can easily describe the same by summarizing the contribution of each segment.
Advantage: It can highlight the largest or smallest segments and talk about the overall distribution of values.
Stacked Bar/Column Charts:
Reason for efficacy: These are great for comparing parts of a whole across categories. Smart Narrative can give context for the relative size of each part with regard to the whole.
Advantage: Smart Narrative can demonstrate how various segments contribute to the overall total and whether any of those segments are gaining or losing.
