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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

Incorporating Advanced Analytics

The standard line, scatter, column, and bar chart visualization types available in Power BI Desktop, which generally represent the majority of Power BI report content, given their advantages in visual comprehension, can be further enhanced via a dedicated analytics pane. Similar to visual-level filters, the Power BI analytics pane creates measures scoped to the specific visual, such as trend lines, constant lines, percentile lines, min, max, and average. This additional logic provides greater context to the visual and avoids the need to author complex or visual-specific DAX measures.

"This pane is our home for all of our analytics features and you'll be able to use this to augment your charts with any kind of additional analytics that you need."

- Amanda Cofsky Rivera, Power BI Program Manager

This recipe includes two examples of leveraging the analytics pane in Power BI Desktop to raise the analytical value of chart visuals...