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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

Grouping and Binning

Grouping and binning in Power BI creates group columns that can then be utilized like other columns in the model to simplify report visualizations and self-service analysis, given their reduced granularity. Additionally, groups can be managed and edited in Power BI Desktop, providing a flexible option for dataset owners to respond quickly to changing requirements or preferences.

This recipe provides examples for using grouping and binning functionality within Power BI Desktop.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Open a Power BI Desktop file locally and access the Power Query Editor by clicking on Transform Data in the ribbon of the Home tab
  2. Create a query named AdWorksDW similar to the following:
    let
        Source = Sql.Database("localhost\MSSQLSERVERDEV", "AdventureWorksDW2019")
    in
        Source
    
  3. Disable load on the AdWorksDW query and place it into a Data Sources query...