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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to make your reports even more interactive and user-friendly. We configured bookmarks that allow you to enhance your reports with a bit of storytelling. We used the selection pane to up our bookmark game, making our reports even more interactive. We also saw how we could use bookmarking and buttons to create our own highly interactive navigation panes. Alternatively, we can also affect navigation by using drillthrough filters to allow navigation from one visual to a whole page of visuals. Along these lines, we also set up synched slicers, allowing slicers on one page to filter visuals on one or more other pages.

You saw how custom tooltips allow you to create visually interesting mouse-overs, allowing you to keep your report pages cleaner and presenting data to your report consumers only when they want it.

We also looked at how visuals can interact with each other, and how and why we can prevent that interaction. Sometimes you want to...