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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide - Third Edition

By : Devin Knight, Erin Ostrowsky, Mitchell Pearson, Bradley Schacht
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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

4.5 (49)
By: Devin Knight, Erin Ostrowsky, Mitchell Pearson, Bradley Schacht

Overview of this book

Updated with the latest features and improvements in Power BI, this fast-paced yet comprehensive guide will help you master the core concepts of data visualization quickly. You’ll learn how to install Power BI, design effective data models, and build basic dashboards and visualizations to help you make better business decisions. This new edition will also help you bridge the gap between MS Excel and Power BI. Throughout this book, you’ll learn how to obtain data from a variety of sources and clean it using the Power Query Editor. You’ll also start designing data models to navigate and explore relationships within your data and building DAX formulas to make data easier to work with. Visualizing data is a key element of this book, so there’s an emphasis on helping you get to grips with data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling. As you progress, you’ll start building your own dataflows, gain an understanding of the Common Data Model, and automate dataflow refreshes to eradicate data cleaning inefficiency. You’ll learn how to administer your organization's Power BI environment so that deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implemented. By the end of this Power BI book, you’ll know how to get the most out of Power BI for better business intelligence.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Summary

In this chapter, you learned that data models in Power BI Desktop should be understandable and designed for scalability and flexibility. You learned how to create new relationships and edit existing relationships. You also learned about how to handle and model complex relationships like many-to-many and role-playing tables. This chapter discussed the importance of usability enhancements like sorting columns, adjusting default summarization, data categorization, and hiding and renaming columns and tables. Finally, the chapter ended with a short discussion on performance considerations for querying and processing your data model. You are now prepared and ready to start building data models in Power BI Desktop!

These data relationships, combined with simple yet critical usability enhancements, allow you to build a data model that is both coherent and intelligent. Historically, business intelligence projects have cost significant resources in terms of time and money. With...

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