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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 14: Managing Workspaces

At the center of the Power BI value proposition is the ability to use it to create and communicate powerful and vivid stories about data. This enables the creation of information and value from raw data. As we have seen throughout the course of this book, Power BI Desktop on its own is a useful toolbox of capabilities for making sense of data and uncovering insights that can often get buried among many millions of rows and thousands of columns in typical enterprise data. However, when we combine Power BI Desktop with the services hosted on PowerBI.com, then we can unlock the potential for sharing information and using the dynamic and robust reporting and analytics capabilities of Power BI across large groups of users.

To share information created in Power BI with other users, Power BI has the concept of publishing content, and in this chapter, we will learn about workspaces, apps, how workspaces can be used for the development life cycle, and how...