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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

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 their own students, the school's principal to see all the teachers at their school, and the school board members to see all of the school's data. This level of granularity is quite possible in Power BI, but will require some thought ahead of time on how to lay out the data.

To show an example of this, we'll need to go back to the Power BI Desktop and open Chapter 5 - Visualizing Data.pbix from a previous chapter's example; this file can be downloaded from this book's GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microsoft-Power-BI-Start-Guide-Second-Edition/blob/main/Completed%20Examples/Chapter%205%20-%20Visualizing%20Data.pbix. The goal of this example is to ensure that United States...