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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

Chapter 10: Creating Dashboards

One of the main reasons organizations adopt Power BI is to enable dynamic storytelling using data with vibrant visuals. Report designers create reports using specific datasets and sometimes, to tell a whole story, you need to use data across different datasets and reports. This is where Power BI dashboards become useful.

A dashboard is one place where you can see all the relevant information about something. In a car, the dashboard contains information about the speed of the car, what gear it is in, whether the lights are on, the temperature of the cabin environment, and even the volume of the sound system. All the data from this example comes from different systems and some inputs can vary when it comes to importance while driving the car, but all of them are going to be important to the person operating the car.

When used properly, dashboards become an integral component of a Power BI solution.

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