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Learn Microsoft Power BI

Learn Microsoft Power BI - Third Edition

By : Greg Deckler
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Learn Microsoft Power BI

Learn Microsoft Power BI

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By: Greg Deckler

Overview of this book

Everyone’s swimming in data. The ones who thrive? They know how to make sense of it with the right tools quickly and effectively. Learn Microsoft Power BI, Third Edition is your essential guide to mastering one of the most powerful platforms for data analysis and visualization. In this newly revised and expanded edition, Greg Deckler, a 7-time Microsoft MVP and Power BI expert, takes you on a journey of data exploration and discovery using Microsoft Power BI to ingest, cleanse, and organize data and uncover key business insights that can be shared effectively. Covering the latest features and interface changes, including Microsoft Fabric and Copilot, this book guides you through deploying, adopting, and governing Power BI within your organization. You’ll get to grips with the fundamentals of business intelligence projects and learn how to leverage your expertise in the broader Power BI ecosystem. From ingesting and cleansing your data to transforming it into stunning visualizations, reports, and dashboards that speak to business decision-makers, this book will fully prepare you to become the data analysis hero of your organization or kickstart a rewarding career in business intelligence. *Email sign-up and proof of purchase required
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: The Basics
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Part 2: The Desktop
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Part 3: The Service
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Part 4: The Future
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Unlocking Insights

Now that we have built and verified our semantic model, we can explore the many powerful features within Power BI that allow us to break down, analyze, and unlock insights about our data. These features allow the report author to create compelling stories about the data within the semantic model, guiding report viewers to the most important insights and information.

Unlocking insights is all about creating reports that allow business users to easily navigate a report seamlessly while providing visualizations that make logical sense to the viewer. This often means that raw data needs to be massaged into groups and hierarchies. In addition, it is important to reduce clutter and only provide data that is relevant to the viewer. Navigational aids allow viewers to seamlessly navigate complex reports intuitively, providing a superior user experience. Finally, advanced analysis techniques are useful for providing a deeper understanding of the data in a visually appealing...

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