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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)

Utilizing graphical visualization types

Data visualization and exploration is central to Power BI, and the visualization types chosen in reports contribute greatly to user comprehension and adoption. Power BI Desktop includes an array of modern visuals such as the Treemap and the Funnel, but also includes rich formatting options for traditional line, bar/column, combination and scatter charts. Additionally, four map visuals are available to analyze geographical data, and many custom visuals are available for download and integration into Power BI Desktop reports.

This recipe provides three examples of utilizing graphical visualization types including the waterfall chart, the line chart, and a shape map. Additional report design guidance as well as a tip on conditional formatting in column/bar charts is included in the There's more... section.

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