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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

Map visuals

Power BI currently provides five map visuals including the Map, Filled map, Shape map (in preview), Azure map (in preview), and the ArcGIS Maps for Power BI.

The map visual plots location points as bubbles over a world map and varies the size of the bubbles based on a value. The bubbles on these maps can also be broken out across a dimension to provide additional context.

The Filled map and Shape map visuals are forms of heat maps that use color and color intensity to distinguish specific areas of a map by a value, such as postal codes by population.

The Azure map visual is similar to the map visual in that it displays bubbles on a world map. The Azure map supports different base layers like satellite and road as well as many different settings including a display of live traffic data. While still in preview, continued enhancements to this visual could position the Azure Map as the standard for geospatial analysis in Power BI.

The ArcGIS map visual is...