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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

Enriching Content with Custom Visuals and Quick Insights

Custom visuals for Power BI can be reviewed and downloaded from AppSource to provide additional features and options beyond those supported by the standard visuals of Power BI Desktop. Over 300 custom visuals are currently available in AppSource with many of these having been developed by Microsoft to address common needs, such as the bullet, histogram, and Gantt charts. Other custom visuals available in AppSource have been developed by third parties but validated for security by Microsoft, with these visuals having unique and powerful capabilities, such as flow map network visualization and the interactive visuals developed by ZoomCharts. In addition to custom visuals, Quick Insights can be used in the Power BI service and in Power BI Desktop to apply advanced analytics algorithms against datasets to extract insights, such as trends or relationships, and rapidly generate new visualizations for use in reports and dashboards...