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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

Report view basics

As soon as you launch Power BI Desktop and close the initial splash screen, you will find yourself in the Report view, which is where you will stay for the duration of this chapter. In the previous chapter, you explored the Model view as well as the Data view, but these areas are not necessary for the visualization work discussed in this chapter. There are many items of interest in this initial Report view area that need to be discussed so that you can work efficiently. Let's open the completed Power BI file from Chapter 4, Leveraging DAX, which includes all of the calculated columns and calculated measures that will be used in the upcoming visuals.

For this chapter, you can build on top of the completed pbix file from Chapter 4, Leveraging DAX. If you would like to keep your work from each chapter separate, please follow the noted steps here. Open the completed pbix file called Chapter 5 - Visualizing Data.pbix. Then, under the File option, choose...