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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)

Introduction

Power BI reports serve as the basic building blocks for dashboards, data exploration, and content collaboration and distribution in Power BI. Power BI Desktop provides abundant data visualization features and options, enabling the construction of highly targeted and user-friendly reports across devices. As each Power BI Desktop report can contain multiple pages within each page, including multiple visuals, a single Power BI report can support multiple use cases, audiences, and business needs. For example, a KPI visual can be pinned to a dashboard, while a report page can support detailed and domain-specific analysis. These capabilities compete directly with visualization offerings from competitor analytics platforms and can be further extended with custom visuals and report themes.

The selection and configuration of Power BI visualization features in report design...