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Use the Analyze feature in Power BI

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Use the Analyze feature in Power BI

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- [Instructor] Okay, so in this sub-lesson, we are going to use the Analyze feature in Power BI. The Analyze feature can provide additional analysis that is generated by Power BI for a selected data point. You can use this feature to determine if Power BI has found something that you haven't seen before, or if you want different insights into your data. This feature is particularly useful for analyzing why your data distribution looks like the way it does. So let's go into the Power BI Desktop and take a look. Okay, so I am on the Power Bi Desktop here. And I just want to go to the line chart here, and if we choose this data point right here, 2012, we can right-click on it, and see we have this Analyze to explain the decrease from 2011 to 2012. So I can go ahead and click on that. And then it's going to go through and give me some type of explanation for the decrease. So we can see there is a few different ways that it's explaining it. So we can go through and take a look at each one…

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