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Learn Power BI - Second Edition

By : Gregory Deckler
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Book Image

Learn Power BI - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Gregory Deckler

Overview of this book

To succeed in today's transforming business world, organizations need business intelligence capabilities to make smarter decisions faster than ever before. This updated second edition of Learn Power BI takes you on a journey of data exploration and discovery, using Microsoft Power BI to ingest, cleanse, and organize data in order to unlock key business insights that can then be shared with others. This newly revised and expanded edition of Learn Power BI covers all of the latest features and interface changes and takes you through the fundamentals of business intelligence projects, how to deploy, adopt, and govern Power BI within your organization, and how to leverage your knowledge in the marketplace and broader ecosystem that is Power BI. As you progress, you will learn how to ingest, cleanse, and transform your data into stunning visualizations, reports, and dashboards that speak to business decision-makers. By the end of this Power BI book, you will be fully prepared to be the data analysis hero of your organization – or even start a new career as a business intelligence professional.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1:The Basics
4
Section 2:The Desktop
10
Section 3:The Service
15
Section 4:The Future

Publishing and sharing

Continuing with the example scenario we introduced in Chapter 3, Up and Running with Power BI Desktop, Pam is excited to share the new utilization report with the rest of the organization. She decides that using the Power BI service is the best and most secure way to do this, especially since she wants to leverage Row-Level Security (RLS) in order to keep people focused on the information that is most important to their role. Pam's organization does not have Power BI Premium, so this means that everyone viewing the report will need a Power BI Pro license.

Creating a workspace

Pam decides to create a workspace specifically for the reports that she will be publishing to the service. She expects to publish many more reports other than just her new utilization report, so she decides to create a new workspace for these reports instead of cluttering up her default My workspace workspace. Follow these steps to get started:

  1. Click on Workspaces and...