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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the importance of proper planning when creating a final report. Planning a report by thinking about how users will use and interact with the report will make the report creation process go more smoothly and help ensure that users find the report intuitive and easy to use. Thinking ahead about using sync slicers and report filters can save time and effort. Using a theme ensures that colors are consistent throughout the report and can also save time by reducing the amount of formatting that's required for visuals. Creating a page template can also save time and effort when creating multiple report pages.

While creating the various pages of the utilization report, we learned valuable lessons about how to overcome the limitations of certain visuals by using DAX, as well as how to use DAX to create dynamic titles that are helpful when working with the drill-through feature and how to add visual cues by using SVG and data categorization....