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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

Designing a Data Model

Power BI Desktop lends itself to rapid, agile development in which significant data insights can be obtained quickly despite both imperfect data sources and an incomplete understanding of business requirements and use cases. However, rushing through the design phase can undermine the sustainability of the solution, as future needs cannot be met without structural revisions to the model or complex workarounds. A balanced design phase in which fundamental decisions, such as DirectQuery versus in-memory, are analyzed, while simultaneously using a limited prototype model to generate visualizations and business feedback can address both short- and long-term needs.

This recipe describes a process for designing a data model and identifies some of the primary questions and factors to consider while doing so.

Getting ready

Visually and analytically impressive examples of Power BI's reporting capabilities can often cause stakeholders to underestimate...