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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

By : Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana
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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

By: Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI is a cloud-based service that helps you easily visualize and share insights using your organization's data.This book will get you started with business intelligence using the Power BI toolset, covering essential concepts such as installation,designing effective data models, as well as building basic dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life You will learn how to get your data the way you want – connecting to data sources sources and how to clean your data with the Power BI Query Editor. You will next learn how to properly design your data model to make your data easier to work with.. You will next learn how to properly design your data model to navigate table relationships and build DAX formulas to make your data easier to work with. Visualizing your data is another key element of this book, and you will learn how to follow proper data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling techniques. By the end of this book, you will understand how to administer your organization's Power BI environment so deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implemented

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Table of Contents (10 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Getting Started with Importing Data Options
Getting Started with Importing Data Options
Getting started
Importing data
DirectQuery
Live Connection
Which should I choose?
Summary
2
Data Transformation Strategies
Data Transformation Strategies
The Power Query Editor
Transform basics
Advanced data transformation options
Leveraging R
M formula language
Summary
3
Building the Data Model
Building the Data Model
Building relationships
Working with complex relationships
Usability enhancements
Summary
4
Leveraging DAX
Leveraging DAX
Building calculated columns
Calculated measures – the basics
Summary
5
Visualizing Data
Visualizing Data
Data visualization basics
Visuals for filtering
Visualizing tabular data
Visualizing categorical data
Visualizing trend data
Visualizing KPI data
Visualizing geographical data
Leveraging Power BI custom visuals
Data visualization tips and tricks
Summary
6
Digital Storytelling with Power BI
Digital Storytelling with Power BI
Configuring drillthrough filters
Storytelling with the Selection pane and bookmarks
Summary
7
Using a Cloud Deployment with the Power BI Service
Using a Cloud Deployment with the Power BI Service
Deploying to the Power BI service
Creating and interacting with dashboards
Sharing your dashboards
Setting up row-level security
Scheduling data refreshes
Summary
8
On-Premises Solutions with Power BI Report Server
On-Premises Solutions with Power BI Report Server
Deploying to Power BI Report Server
Securing reports
Scheduling data refreshes
Summary
9
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Leveraging DAX

Data analysis expressions (DAX) is a formula language that made its debut back in 2010 with the release of Power Pivot within Excel. Much of DAX is similar to Excel's functions, and therefore learning DAX is an easy transition for Excel users and power users. In fact, DAX is so similar to Excel that I have seen new students become comfortable with the language and begin writing DAX within minutes.

The goal of this chapter is to introduce you to DAX and give you the confidence to start exploring this language on your own. Because of the brevity of this chapter, there will not be any discussions on in-depth DAX concepts and theory. There are, of course, many other books that are dedicated to just that.

Now, let's take a look at what is covered in this chapter:

  • Building calculated columns
  • Calculated measures – the basics
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