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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 rich and intuitive Power BI reports

Power BI Desktop provides the means to design reports that are both highly customized to specific use cases and requirements as well as aligned with a corporate BI standard. The report design and development process should naturally flow from the data modeling process as the measures, relationships, and dimensions from the model are now utilized to visualize and analyze business questions. As the purpose and scope of Power BI reports can range widely from dashboard visualizations to interactive analytical experiences to role-specific detail reporting, it's essential that report authoring features are aligned closely to these distinct use cases.

In this recipe, a report design planning process is shared to bring clarity to the primary design elements of Power BI reports, such as visualization types. Two finished report pages are...