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Learn Power BI - Second Edition

By : Gregory Deckler
5 (1)
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

Questions

As an activity, try to answer the following questions on your own:

  • What Power BI feature allows the report author to preset elements such as colors and font sizes?
  • What are the three preparation steps that are taken before creating the final report pages?
  • What feature keeps the settings for slicers consistent across pages?
  • What type of visual can display the current value of a metric and the trend of that metric and track that metric against a goal?
  • What two features of Power BI are used to allow report viewers to reset the slicers on a page?
  • What DAX function can be used to determine whether a column has a single value?
  • What Power BI feature allows ad hoc information to be entered into the data model?
  • What two analytics features were used on the report pages?
  • What report and data elements can be hidden from report viewers?