You have a collection of reports for the HR department of your company. You need to create a visualization for the HR department that shows a historic employee counts and predicts trends during the…

The correct answer is C. line chart. A line chart is the correct choice because it is the only common Power BI visualization that supports both historical trend display and the built-in forecast feature from the Analytics pane. The forecast feature can project data forward by a configurable number of periods…

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Question

You have a collection of reports for the HR department of your company. You need to create a visualization for the HR department that shows a historic employee counts and predicts trends during the next six months. Which type of visualization should you use?

Options

Ascatter chart
Bribbon chart
Cline chart
Dkey influences

How the community answered

(23 responses)

A
4% (1)
B
4% (1)
C
91% (21)

Explanation

A line chart is the correct choice because it is the only common Power BI visualization that supports both historical trend display and the built-in forecast feature from the Analytics pane. The forecast feature can project data forward by a configurable number of periods (e.g., six months) with a confidence interval. A scatter chart (A) is used for correlation analysis, a ribbon chart (B) tracks category ranking over time, and Key Influencers (D) identifies factors driving a metric - none of these support forecasting.

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#Data visualization#Line charts#Time series data#Trend analysis

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