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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

Segmenting data

Power BI provides several mechanisms for segmenting data. These include the ability to use groups, hierarchies, and Row-Level Security (RLS). Segmenting data allows you to partition or group individual rows of data into logical units that make sense to an organization. This helps ensure that business rules are enforced or that metrics can be shown in a manner that is more easily digestible by business users versus looking at individual rows of data.

In this section, we will learn how to create groups that provide business-relevant segmentation of data, as well as logical hierarchies that classify information based on business structures. Finally, we will explore how to automatically filter data so that only the data that's relevant to the viewer is displayed.

Creating groups

The easiest way to see grouping in Power BI is to use visualizations to summarize data. We can do this by following these steps:

  1. Create a new page, Page 2, in Power BI Desktop...