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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide - Second Edition

By : Devin Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Bradley Schacht, Erin Ostrowsky
Book Image

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide - Second Edition

By: Devin Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Bradley Schacht, Erin Ostrowsky

Overview of this book

This revised edition has been fully updated to reflect the latest enhancements to Power BI. It includes a new chapter dedicated to dataflow, and covers all the essential concepts such as installation, designing effective data models, as well as building basic dashboards and visualizations to help you and your organization make better business decisions. You’ll learn how to obtain data from a variety of sources and clean it using Power BI Query Editor. You’ll then find out how you can design your data model to navigate and explore relationships within it and build DAX formulas to make your data easier to work with. Visualizing your data is a key element in this book, and you’ll get to grips rapidly with data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling techniques. In addition, you will acquire the skills to build your own dataflows, understand the Common Data Model, and automate data flow refreshes to eradicate data cleansing inefficiency. This guide will help you understand how to administer your organization's Power BI environment so that deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implemented. By the end of this Power BI book, you’ll have a better understanding of how to get the most out of Power BI to perform effective business intelligence.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
10
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Index

Index

Symbols

#shared function

using 48, 49

A

age calculation

using, in DAX 103, 104

AI Insights

leveraging 44

AI Insights, Text Analytics

using 45, 46

alternative methods, for time intelligence

reference link 120

Analytics section 194, 195

ArcGIS map visual

geographical data, visualizing with 184, 185, 186

Azure maps visual

geographical data, visualizing with 186, 187

B

bar and column charts

categorical data, visualizing with 156, 157

Base Transceiver Stations (BTSes) 86

bookmarking

alternate views, of same data 212, 213, 214

bookmarks

object visibility, combining with 211

report views, capturing 206, 208, 209, 210, 211

selecting, with buttons 214, 215, 216, 217

branch 159

bubble chart 162

bubble map 180

built-in time intelligence functions

reference link 122

buttons

used, for selecting bookmarks 214, 215, 216, 217

C

calculated columns

building...