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Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell
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Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Mastering Microsoft Power BI, Second Edition, provides an advanced understanding of Power BI to get the most out of your data and maximize business intelligence. This updated edition walks through each essential phase and component of Power BI, and explores the latest, most impactful Power BI features. Using best practices and working code examples, you will connect to data sources, shape and enhance source data, and develop analytical data models. You will also learn how to apply custom visuals, implement new DAX commands and paginated SSRS-style reports, manage application workspaces and metadata, and understand how content can be staged and securely distributed via Power BI apps. Furthermore, you will explore top report and interactive dashboard design practices using features such as bookmarks and the Power KPI visual, alongside the latest capabilities of Power BI mobile applications and self-service BI techniques. Additionally, important management and administration topics are covered, including application lifecycle management via Power BI pipelines, the on-premises data gateway, and Power BI Premium capacity. By the end of this Power BI book, you will be confident in creating sustainable and impactful charts, tables, reports, and dashboards with any kind of data using Microsoft Power BI.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Analyze in Excel

Users with Power BI Pro licenses can connect to datasets hosted in the Power BI service from both Power BI Desktop and Microsoft Excel. Either of these tools displays the tables, columns, and measures for the dataset and, based on the report visuals created (for example, pivot tables), sends queries to Power BI for execution by the source dataset.

In the case of Power BI Desktop, these reports can be published back to the Power BI service and retain their connection to the dataset, as recommended in the Live connections to Power BI datasets section of Chapter 6, Planning Power BI Reports.

Prior to broadly recommending Excel as a client-reporting tool, consider whether Power BI Desktop isn’t better suited to common use cases, such as pivot tables. As the adoption of Power BI increases, Power BI reports that are built in Power BI Desktop provide a richer and more familiar user experience.

The Analyze in Excel feature is exposed as an action for...