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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

Working in the Service

"A dashboard is really a content aggregator. It lets you bring together lots of different data sources in one place so you can have a 360 degree view of your business on one dashboard."

- Adam Wilson, group program manager for the Power BI service

Power BI dashboards are collections of tiles created in the Power BI service, representing the visuals from one or many Power BI reports and, optionally, other sources, such as Excel and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Dashboards are best utilized to centralize essential key performance indicators (KPIs), measures, and trends in a visual- and mobile-optimized layout. Additionally, dashboards can provide an entryway to other dashboards or reports and are further enhanced with URL links, streaming data, images, web content, and interactivity.

In this chapter, Power BI dashboards are constructed to provide intuitive, at-a-glance monitoring of critical measures and high-impact business activities...