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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

Detecting and Analyzing Clusters

Clustering is a data mining and machine learning technique used to group (cluster) the items of one dimension based on the values of one or more measures. Given the number of distinct dimension items, such as products or customers, and the number of measures describing those items, clustering is a powerful method of exploring data to discover relationships not easily detected with standard reporting and analysis techniques. Power BI Desktop provides built-in support for the creation of clusters and allows these clusters to be managed, revised, and used in Power BI reports like other columns in the data model.

In this recipe, a customer cluster is created based on the sales amount, the count of orders, and the count of days since the last purchase. DAX measures are created to support this analysis, and a Scatter Chart visual is created to further analyze the clusters.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, follow these steps:

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