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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By : Author Test, Brett Powell
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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By: Author Test, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data. This book will provide thorough, technical examples of using all primary Power BI tools and features as well as demonstrate high impact end-to-end solutions that leverage and integrate these technologies and services. Get familiar with Power BI development tools and services, go deep into the data connectivity and transformation, modeling, visualization and analytical capabilities of Power BI, and see Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M come alive to deliver powerful solutions to address common, challenging scenarios in business intelligence. This book will excite and empower you to get more out of Power BI via detailed recipes, advanced design and development tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Exposing what matters - top N and percentage of total visualizations

A common use case for dashboards is to highlight and monitor the drivers of significant events or business trends. For example, an enterprise dashboard may feature a reseller margin % KPI visualization, but a separate dashboard may identify the top and bottom 10 individual resellers and products by margin %.

In this recipe, dashboard visuals are created leveraging the top N filter type available to visual level filters and DAX measures to present focused, actionable information in Power BI dashboards.

How to do it...

Top 25 resellers with below -3% margin

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