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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

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

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
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Visualizing geographical data

One of the most exciting ways to visualize data in Power BI is through the various map options that we have. All the maps serve the same purpose to illustrate data in relation to locations around the world, but there are some small differences between each of them. All of the maps, except the Shape Map, have the option to provide the latitude and longitude coordinates, which will be the best way to ensure the appropriate location is being displayed. The reason for this is because the information that we provide the visual will be sent to Bing Maps to verify the positioning on the map. If we do not provide enough detail, then Bing may not return the desired results. For example, if we were to provide the map visual with a field that contains only the city name, that could result in some confusion because there may be multiple cities in the US with...