Sort and Filter efffectively in Power BI

Actually this is one of the new features in the June 5, 2018 update of Power BI. In the other posts 1 , 2 you can review enhancements to Donut and Pie charts.

Here in, the improvements in this update allows you to sort columns and filter them ver effectively.

I am using the data of from Indian Census from one of my earlier posts here .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India

This was imported into MS Excel and it was in turn imported into Power BI.

The data in Excel is shown here:

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The data from this post is as shown in Power BI:

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In the June 5, 2018 Power BI used here, you can sort and filter in each column.

Column 2 which is text (name of Indian State), you have the sort option come up when you

click the column2's handler as shown.

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For Columns 3 to 5, you have other filtering options as well as sorting:

For example if you choose to filter in the state column(Column2). Here only states starting with 'A' are chosen.

When you agree for this filter by clicking OK, you would see this,