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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

Authoring Power BI Reports

Power BI reports serve as the basic building blocks for dashboards, data exploration, and content collaboration and distribution in Power BI. Power BI Desktop provides abundant data visualization features and options, enabling the construction of highly targeted, user-friendly reports across devices. As each Power BI Desktop report can contain multiple pages with each page including multiple visuals, a single Power BI report can support multiple use cases, audiences, and business needs. For example, a KPI visual can be pinned to a dashboard in the Power BI Service, while a report page can support detailed, domain-specific analysis. These capabilities compete directly with visualization offerings from competitor analytics platforms and can be further extended with custom visuals and report themes.

The selection and configuration of Power BI visualization features in report design are essential to derive value from the data retrieval and modeling...