You are authoring a Power BI report for the finance team. They need to compare each region's year-over-year revenue growth percentage using a bar-style chart, and regions with negative growth must automatically display in red while positive growth appears in green. Which visual and configuration should you use to satisfy the requirement without adding complex DAX measures?
Matrix visual with conditional formatting icons on the growth percentage field
Stacked area chart using the default diverging color palette
KPI visual that shows absolute revenue and status indicator rules
Clustered column chart with conditional formatting applied to Data colors based on the growth measure
A clustered column (or bar) chart natively compares a single measure across categorical items, making it ideal for visualizing regional growth percentages as bars. Power BI allows conditional formatting of the Data colors property for column and bar charts, so you can bind the color to a numeric growth-percentage measure and specify red for values below 0 and green for values above 0. A KPI visual or matrix could indicate status, but they do not present the comparative bar length the finance team requested. A stacked area chart shows part-to-whole trends and does not support category-level color rules in the same way, while a default diverging palette does not automatically key off the growth measure without manual rules. Therefore, using a clustered column chart with conditional data-color formatting best meets the stated need.
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