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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)

Detecting and analyzing clusters

Clustering is a data mining and machine learning technique used to group (cluster) the items of one dimension based on the values of one or more measures. Given the number of distinct dimension items, such as products or customers, and the number of measures describing those items, clustering is a powerful method of exploring data to discover relationships not easily detected with standard reporting and analysis techniques. Power BI Desktop provides built-in support for the creation of clusters and allows these clusters to be managed, revised, and used in Power BI reports like other columns in the data model.

In this recipe, a customer cluster is created based on sales amount, the count of orders, and the count of days since last purchase. DAX measures are created to support this analysis and a Scatter Chart visual is created to further analyze...