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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

Waterfall chart

The waterfall chart is one of the most powerful standard visuals in Power BI given its ability to compute and format the variances of individual items between two periods by default.

The items representing the largest variances are displayed as columns of varying length, sorted and formatted with either an increase (green), no change (yellow), or decrease (red) color. This built-in logic and conditional formatting make waterfall charts both easy to create and intuitive for users.

In Figure 7.19, the Internet Net Sales of the last two completed months are broken down by SalesTerritoryCountry:

Figure 7.19: Waterfall chart with breakdown

The waterfall chart in Figure 7.19 was created by placing the Internet Net Sales measure applied to the Values field well, and placing the Year Month and SalesTerritoryCountry columns into the Category and Breakdown input fields, respectively. The waterfall chart naturally walks the user from the starting point...