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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

Optimizing dashboards

Dashboards are a useful way to tell a story using data and visuals in Power BI but if they are not optimized to the screen they are being presented on or if the dashboard takes a long time to load, they lose their effectiveness. In this section, we'll see how we can optimize dashboards for these scenarios to make them the most useful starting place for Power BI information consumers.

Configuring views of a dashboard

To recap, Power BI is an online service that allows organizations to see the most important information from anywhere. This is accomplished using a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) website at https://www.powerbi.com as well as mobile apps for iOS and Android phones and tablets and Windows devices.

However, since these device screens can range from small hand-held sizes to very large, dashboards being created can be consumed optimally for every screen size. Large screen devices such as desktop web browsers and tablets will use the same layout...