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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

Questions

As an activity, try to answer the following questions on your own:

  • How many different connectors are available for ingesting data in Power BI?
  • What is the powerful sub-application included with Power BI that's used for ingesting and shaping data?
  • What is the name of the language that's used behind the scenes when creating queries?
  • Turning columns into rows is called what?
  • What icons are displayed in the headers of columns for text, whole number, decimal, and date columns?
  • Joining two queries together based on columns is called what?
  • What are the six different kinds of join operations that can be performed when joining queries?
  • Adding one query to another query is called what?