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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide - Second Edition

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

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide - Second Edition

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

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

Combining object visibility with bookmarks

The Selection pane provides a list of all objects on the current page and allows you to show or hide visuals. This is useful if a slicer or visual is needed for cross-filtering but is not needed for analysis. It is also useful to reuse the same Report page for the same data but using different visuals when you are pressed for space. The following section will demonstrate how to maximize your use of space when visualizing data in different ways.

Bookmarking alternate views of the same data

Some users may want to see sales by country as a Bar chart, and others may want to see it as a Table. If there is not enough room for both visuals, the default answer may be to create a new page. However, it can be cumbersome to recreate and maintain the same exact filters on multiple pages. An alternate solution would be to put both visuals on the same page and dynamically show or hide them based on a user selection of "chart" or &quot...