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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

Finishing up

Even though Pam has finished building her report, she still needs to test the report and clean up some loose ends.

In the following subsections, we will perform some final testing and cleanup on the report to ensure that everything works correctly and that the report is ready for business users to consume.

Testing

Pam decides to work through an example scenario to see how the report performs. To perform this test, do the following:

  1. Start on the Executive Summary page. Here, we can see that the overall utilization is good and above our goal. All of the branches are above our target utilization. However, one Division, in particular, is noticeably below the average. This is the 3001 Management division. Let's investigate this Division further to see what is driving down utilization.
  2. In the % Utilization by Division visual, right-click on the 3001 Management bar and choose Drill through and then Division Management. Checking the green dynamic title...