📊Build a Visual Explorer in Power BI - Let Users Choose What and How They See Data

By Isabelle Bittar for KI Data Science

🪄 A plug-in section you can add to any report to empower your users.

PBIX included! 🎉 (Download link at the end of this article)

Introduction

When people start using your reports — like really using them — they don’t end up with fewer questions… they end up with more. 😅

That’s actually a good thing. It means your dashboards are doing their job — sparking curiosity and deeper analysis. But it also means users will often ask for “just one more visual” or “a slightly different view.”

That’s where a Visual Explorer comes in. Here is a quick demo of what it looks like in action 😎: 

Instead of creating dozens of near-identical pages, you can give users the freedom to customize their view — choosing what metric they want to analyze and how they want to visualize it (bar, line, table, etc.). It’s like giving them their own mini reporting sandbox, right inside Power BI.

In many of my client projects — especially those with heavy report usage — I love building these “exploration” sections. They empower users to investigate their own questions, discover new insights, and even build visuals they can reuse for presentations or meetings.

And the best part? The more they can explore on their own, the fewer ad hoc requests you’ll get, freeing up your time 😅. 

In this tutorial, I’ll show you exactly how to build your own Visual Explorer — step by step.

Read the full article on Medium: https://isabittar.medium.com/build-a-visual-explorer-in-power-bi-let-users-choose-what-and-how-they-see-data-d19d35c765e8