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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

Building Animation and Storytelling

Business teams and analysts are commonly responsible for sharing or "walking through" business results, trends, and the findings from their analyses with other stakeholders, such as senior management. To support the message delivery process most effectively, Power BI provides built-in animation capabilities for the standard scatter chart and ArcGIS map visualization types. Additionally, core and custom visuals, such as the pulse chart, further aid the storytelling process by embedding user-defined annotations into the visual and providing full playback control over the animation.

"We're bringing storytelling into Power BI. We're making Power BI into the PowerPoint for data."

– Amir Netz, Microsoft Technical Fellow

This recipe includes examples for preparing the standard Scatter chart visualization for animation, leveraging the date animation feature of the ArcGIS Maps for Power BI visual. Details...