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Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Guide

By : Orrin Edenfield, Edward Corcoran
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Book Image

Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Guide

5 (1)
By: Orrin Edenfield, Edward Corcoran

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI enables organizations to create a data-driven culture with business intelligence for all. This guide to achieving the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification will help you take control of your organization's data and pass the exam with confidence. From getting started with Power BI to connecting to data sources, including files, databases, cloud services, and SaaS providers, to using Power BI’s built-in tools to build data models and produce visualizations, this book will walk you through everything from setup to preparing for the certification exam. Throughout the chapters, you'll get detailed explanations and learn how to analyze your data, prepare it for consumption by business users, and maintain an enterprise environment in a secure and efficient way. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create and maintain robust reports and dashboards, enabling you to manage a data-driven enterprise, and be ready to take the PL-300 exam with confidence.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Preparing the Data
6
Part 2 – Modeling the Data
11
Part 3 – Visualizing the Data
15
Part 4 – Analyzing the Data
18
Part 5 – Deploying and Maintaining Deliverables
21
Part 6 – Practice Exams

Adding a smart narrative visual

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. That may be so, but sometimes you just might want some words to explain what is happening in your data. The smart narrative visualization will quickly summarize visuals and reports and put that summarization into text. It provides relevant innovative insights that you can customize.

Smart narrative summaries will build key takeaways and trends, and you can edit the language and format so the insights can be tailored to a specific audience. With smart narrative visuals, your report users will better understand the data, arrive at key points faster, and be able to explain the insights to others.

There are two different ways to generate a smart narrative summary. The first is to right-click on a visual in Power BI Desktop and select Summarize from the context menu. This will create a new smart narrative visualization.

Figure 9.33 – Smart narrative visual

If you have...