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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

Summary

This chapter introduced three important types of objects in the Power BI service: dashboards, apps, and scorecards.

Dashboards are a powerful feature that allows end users to bring together all of the most important information from multiple reports, datasets, other dashboards, Q&A, and other sources into a single-page canvas consisting of tiles. These tiles can be adjusted on the canvas and allow for the creation of data alerts to immediately inform users when key metric thresholds are met.

Apps, on the other hand, allow multiple dashboards and reports to be bundled together as an independent application and published to users. These apps provide similar features and functionality to the full Power BI service.

Scorecards allow users to track and share goals. These goals can be dynamically driven by data and rules to automatically track progress.

In addition to understanding dashboards, apps, and scorecards, we have also taken an in-depth look at security within...