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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

Integrating Card visualizations

Card and Multi-row Card visualizations are often positioned at the top and left sections of report pages, given the importance of individual measures and small sets of measures. Although less graphically powerful and interactive than other visuals, cards are also the most common tiles pinned to Power BI dashboards and are also used frequently in phone layouts for mobile consumption. A common practice in report design is to start with a few high-level measures represented as card or KPI visuals and build additional chart and Table visuals around these.

This recipe demonstrates how to use card, Multi-row card, KPI, and Gauge visualizations—as well as text boxes.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Open the CH4_R2.pbix file and save it as CH4_R3.pbix.
  2. Switch to the Scratch page, and use Ctrl-A then Delete to remove any visuals.
  3. Check the Filters pane and ensure that only the Europe filter...