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Excel Dashboards vs Power BI Dashboards

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November 10, 2020 by Mynda Treacy

One of the most common questions I get is:

Should I be using Power BI to build dashboards instead of Excel?

If the person you ask this of has only used one tool or the other, then you're likely to get a biased answer. I have taught thousands of people how to build dashboards using both Excel and Power BI, so you can be assured that I will give you a balanced view.

The video below takes you through the main differences and pros and cons of each, enabling you to make an educated decision on which tool will suit you best.

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Excel Dashboards vs Power BI Comparison Table

The pros and cons of each tool are summarised in the comparison table below:

Excel Dashboards vs Power BI

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  1. Ahmed

    October 30, 2022 at 2:00 am

    From your comparison table above, I am not sure it is very correct to claim excel cant handle big data, because I’d repeatedly imported smaller datasets from workbooks or worksheets into power query to become a very large data.

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    • Mynda Treacy

      October 30, 2022 at 4:41 pm

      If you’re importing a lot of data into Excel via Power Query, then you should be loading it into the data model where Excel can handle millions of rows of data and can better compress it. If you load a lot of data into a Table in a worksheet, then you will have performance issues.

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  2. waleed alazoly

    January 26, 2021 at 11:13 pm

    Your are Amazing

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    • Mynda Treacy

      January 27, 2021 at 8:39 am

      Glad you found this helpful, Waleed!

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