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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By : Author Test, Brett Powell
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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By: Author Test, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data. This book will provide thorough, technical examples of using all primary Power BI tools and features as well as demonstrate high impact end-to-end solutions that leverage and integrate these technologies and services. Get familiar with Power BI development tools and services, go deep into the data connectivity and transformation, modeling, visualization and analytical capabilities of Power BI, and see Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M come alive to deliver powerful solutions to address common, challenging scenarios in business intelligence. This book will excite and empower you to get more out of Power BI via detailed recipes, advanced design and development tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Building a Power BI Data Model

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Designing a multi fact data model
  • Implementing a multi fact data model
  • Handling one-to-many and many-to-many relationships
  • Assigning data formatting and categories
  • Configuring Default Summarization and sorting
  • Setting the visibility of columns and tables
  • Embedding business definitions into DAX measures
  • Enriching a model with analysis expressions
  • Building analytics into data models with DAX
  • Integrating math and statistical analysis via DAX
  • Supporting virtual table relationships
  • Creating browsable model hierarchies and groups