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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

Creating the final report pages

Pam is finally done with the preparation. However, all of this preparation is about to pay off by making creating the rest of the final report pages far easier.

In the following subsections, we will create each of the seven pages of our report.

Creating the Executive Summary page

The first page we must create is the Executive Summary page. This page will display a quick snapshot of the most important information to the business executives. To create the Executive Summary page, follow these steps:

  1. Right-click the Template page and choose Duplicate Page.
  2. Rename Duplicate of Template to Executive Summary.

Because this page is a duplicate of the Template page, all of the slicers on this page have the same group names that were defined for the slicers on the Template page. This means that the slicers on this page will be kept in sync with the slicers on the Template page; any other pages that are created will be done by duplicating...