Card Visualization in Excel Power View

In excel Power view, the card visualization feature helps to display the table data in the form of pictorial representation. Every row of the table can be captured to form a series of data in Card Visualization. While we can also insert images to our card, the images added are data-bound. Card visualization provides two different card styles in Power BI: Card (single row), Multi row card

Example: 

Consider the following data table for our example. It contains the date field, buyer name, type, and amount of the product purchased. Either directly create a file in excel and use Power Pivot or we can use Power BI desktop directly to create cards in excel.

Step 1: Open the Power Bi desktop and click on “import data from excel“. 

Step 2: Select any excel file that has database and click on the sheet that contains the tables. Click on load and it will load all the rows of the table. 

Step 3: All the attributes(columns) of the table will be available in the fields section (right side). Here in “sheet 1” all the columns are displayed like amount, buyer, date, and type.

Step 4: Click on visualization group and from the available selection, click on “card”. Visualization is a group available in the right corner along with the filters and fields group.

Step 5: A blank card will appear in the panel window as shown in the image below:

Step 6: Drag all the columns that we want from the fields group to the card panel on the left-hand side.

Step 7: Here we have selected sum(amount) from the fields group. Since we have a single-row card, only the single row with the total amount will be visible on the card.

Step 8: To format the card, click on the “format your visual” icon available in the visual group. 

Step 9: In the visual group, select the font type, size, color, and other specifications available in the “callout value” tab. We can the color and fonts will be changed accordingly.

Step 10: Now to make every row of the table appear in the card, go to the visualization and find “multi-row card”.

Step 11: Drag and drop all the fields from the “fields” group to the card panel appearing in the left.

Step 12: The whole table data will be presented in the card format as shown below. The rows will form a series of snapshots for the card and all the series of rows aggregated together will form the complete table data.

Step 13: Also, the date can be drilled up or down as per the requirement. here we will remove the date hierarchy by clicking on the “Date” drop-down and unchecking the “Date hierarchy”.

Step 14: We will get the result in the original date format after removing the hierarchy. It is the apt format of card visualization.