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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)

Setting up row-level security

In most organizations, security is not just a report-level decision. Organizations want more granular decisions, such as whether a sales executive can only see his or her own data. Another example is the ability for a teacher to see his or her own students, but the school's principal can see all the teachers at their school and the school board members can see all of the data. This level of granularity is quite possible in Power BI, but will require some thought ahead of time on how to lay the data out.

To show an example of this, we'll need to go back to the Power BI Desktop and open Chapter 5 - Visualizing Data Completed.pbix from a previous chapter's example; this file can be downloaded from this book's web page at http://packtpub.com. The goal of this example is to ensure that United States sales managers can only see US...