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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)
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Index

Visualizing Data

Power BI is best known for its impressive visualization capabilities. Up to this point, the focus has been on importing data and modeling it to your specifications. The goal of this chapter is to bring that data to life through impactful visuals. The number of visuals is vast, and the aim is to provide an overview of most of the included visuals. It is impossible to do an in-depth tour of all the options; instead the focus will be on getting familiar with the basic configuration, appropriate use for each of the built-in visuals, and how to acquire custom visuals not included in Power BI by default. The topics detailed in this chapter include the following:

  • Report view basics
  • Creating new visuals
  • Filtering visualizations and data
  • Visualizing tabular data
  • Visualizing categorical data
  • Visualizing trend data
  • Visualizing KPI data
  • Visualizing data using cards
  • Visualizing geographical data
  • Natural language
  • ...