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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Greg Deckler, Brett Powell
Book Image

Microsoft Power BI Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Greg Deckler, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

The complete everyday reference guide to Power BI, written by an internationally recognized Power BI expert duo, is back with a new and updated edition. Packed with revised practical recipes, Microsoft Power BI Cookbook, Second Edition, helps you navigate Power BI tools and advanced features. It also demonstrates the use of end-to-end solutions that integrate those features to get the most out of Power BI. With the help of the recipes in this book, you’ll gain advanced design and development insight, practical tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects. The updated recipes will equip you with everything you need to know to implement evergreen frameworks that will stay relevant as Power BI updates. You’ll familiarize yourself with Power BI development tools and services by going deep into the data connectivity, transformation, modeling, visualization, and analytical capabilities of Power BI. By the end of this book, you’ll make the most of Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M and deliver powerful solutions to common business intelligence challenges.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Accessing and Analyzing Power BI Datasets in Excel

With a centralized and potentially certified Power BI dataset hosted in the Power BI service, Excel users with both Free and Pro licenses can take full advantage of Excel's familiar interface as well as advanced features and use cases such as cube formulas and custom DAX queries.

Although these Excel reports, like SSRS paginated reports, are only a supplement to the Power BI reports and dashboards in the Power BI service, they are often useful for scorecard layouts with custom formatting and many measures and columns.

In this scenario, an experienced Excel user with deep business knowledge can leverage the performance, scale, and automatic refresh of the published Power BI dataset to create custom, fully formatted Excel reports. Additionally, the Excel report author has the flexibility to apply report-scoped logic on top of the dataset using familiar techniques and these customizations can inform BI teams or dataset...