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Learn Power BI - Second Edition

By : Gregory Deckler
5 (1)
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

Getting data

Power BI is all about working with and visualizing data. Thus, we must incorporate some additional data into our model. In Chapter 2, Planning Projects with Power BI, we covered the data and data sources that Pam required and would be using. To emulate this data, we will use Excel files, so ensure that you have the Excel files from this chapter's Technical requirements section downloaded and that your LearnPowerBI.pbix file is open in Power BI Desktop.

In this section, you will create your first query and then add some additional data to your data model.

Creating your first query

To determine whether or not Personal Time Off (PTO) should be approved, it is important to understand where the company is concerning budgets and forecasts. Whether or not the company, department, and/or location is on target in terms of its budget can be an important consideration when approving or denying time off.

Unlike the calendar table from Chapter 3, Up and Running with...