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Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell
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Book Image

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

Index

Symbols

DAX calculations

performance testing 225

A

Active Directory (AD) 587

administration, Power BI Premium 633

Admin role 419, 420

aggregation tables 171, 172, 174, 175

AI splits 337

AI visuals 331, 332

Decomposition tree visual 336, 337, 338

Q&A visualization 338, 339, 340

smart narrative visual 341, 342

ALM Toolkit 652

deployment 653, 654, 655

download link 652

reference link 655

Analytics pane 179, 358, 359

Forecasting feature 362, 364

Trend line 359, 360, 362

Analyze feature. See  Quick Insights feature

Analyze in Excel 575, 576, 577

Analyze in Excel feature 21

animation

adding 355

app deployment process 540, 541

application lifecycle management (ALM) 439

app owns data 567

ArcGIS Maps for Power BI visual 348, 349, 350, 351

ArcGIS Map visual 297

artificial intelligence (AI) 331

key influencers visual 332, 334, 336

Assume Referential...