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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 animation and story telling capabilities

Business teams and analysts are commonly responsible for sharing or "walking through" business results, trends, and the findings from their analyses with other stakeholders such as senior management. To most effectively support the message delivery process in these scenarios, Power BI provides built-in animation capabilities for the standard scatter chart and ArcGIS map visualization types. Additionally, custom visuals such as the pulse chart further aid the storytelling process by embedding user-defined annotations into the visual and providing full playback control over the animation.

"We're bringing storytelling into Power BI. We're making Power BI into the PowerPoint for data"
- Amir Netz, Microsoft Technical Fellow

This recipe includes examples of preparing the standard Scatter chart visualization...