Quick summary
This tutorial shows how to create a distribution chart in Power BI using the Histogram Chart visual from the AppSource marketplace. You will learn how to add, configure, and format a histogram to analyze how numeric data is spread across bins in your report.
Steps
- Navigate to your dataset in Power BI that you want to create a distribution visualization for.
- Click Edit to enter edit mode where you can customize your distribution visualization settings.
- Access additional formatting options by clicking the three-dot menu in the visualizations pane.
- Select Get more visuals to explore distribution chart options not included in the standard visuals.
- Type Histogram in the search bar to find relevant visualization types for showing data distributions.
- Choose Histogram Chart from the options — the ideal visual for showing how your data is distributed across ranges.
- Click Add to include the histogram visualization in your Power BI report.
- Drag the numeric field you want to analyze into the Values area of the visualization pane.
- Select your newly created histogram chart to activate the formatting options specific to distribution analysis.
- Power BI automatically calculates the distribution by counting data points in each bin; adjust bin sizes in the formatting pane for more detailed analysis.
