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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

Chapter 7: Creating the Final Report

We have spent the last few chapters importing, scrubbing, and shaping data, and then carefully crafting it into a data model. In addition, we have learned about the many powerful features of Power BI that can help us unlock insights into our data.

All of this hard work is about to pay off. In this chapter, we will put all of these tools and techniques together into a final report that we can share with the organization! This chapter provides detailed steps regarding how to create a polished report. This will not only provide ease of use and valuable insights to the viewer but can also be easily created and maintained over time.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Preparing the final report
  • Creating the final report pages
  • Finishing up