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Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Guide

By : Orrin Edenfield, Edward Corcoran
5 (1)
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

Designing reports for mobile devices

Power BI embraces the mobile-first world that is quickly approaching, if it is not already here. Many report users will prefer interacting with reports on their mobile phones or tablets. Power BI works with all modern browsers, so this is not a problem. The problem is, especially for phones and smaller tablets, the default landscape orientation is not the way your end users usually use their phone. You can create an additional view that is optimized for mobile devices and displays in portrait orientation. Power BI has a mobile layout option that, alongside the Power BI app for those devices and the Power BI service, can detect when a device is in portrait mode and change to a more thumb-friendly vertical alignment.

To create a mobile-optimized version of your report, you can do the following:

  • Design a mobile layout view, where you can drag and drop certain visuals onto a phone emulator canvas.
  • Use visuals and slicers that are suitable...