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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide - Third Edition

By : Devin Knight, Erin Ostrowsky, Mitchell Pearson, Bradley Schacht
Book Image

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide - Third Edition

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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Index

Using the Page navigator

So far, we have seen how to navigate between pages using drill through, weave through a report with bookmarks, and see additional details using tooltips. Now, let’s explore how you can enhance the most common and basic method for navigating a report: pages. In Power BI Desktop the pages display line the bottom of the report canvas. In the Power BI service pages are displayed in a list on the left side of the screen. What if a user’s eyes never had to leave the report canvas? They could focus on the report, navigation to the relevant pages would be on each page, and in the case of Power BI Desktop, there would be no hidden pages to confuse the user. Of course this can be accomplished using buttons, but the same issue arises that we saw with bookmarks earlier int his chapter. Creating additional pages means a lot of manual work to keep things updated and organized. This is where the page navigator comes into the picture.

The page navigator operates...