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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)

Enhancing exploration of reports

Power BI reports can be accessed and dynamically filtered via natural language queries in both Power BI Q&A as well as Windows Cortana. This can greatly extend the self-service experience as the user isn't required to navigate through reports or make slicer selections within a report page. To best take advantage of these features, report designers can create featured Q&A questions, expose report pages to common natural language terms, and create report pages specific to Cortana or Q&A queries. Report authors can also design drillthrough report pages to enable users to quickly and easily explore the details associated with a specific item of interest. Finally, report themes can be imported or created from scratch to apply custom formatting to new and existing reports, such as with a corporate report layout standard.

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