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Learn Power BI

By : Gregory Deckler
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Learn Power BI

By: Gregory Deckler

Overview of this book

To succeed in today's transforming business world, organizations need business intelligence capabilities to make smarter decisions faster than ever before. This Power BI book is an entry-level guide that will get you up and running with data modeling, visualization, and analytical techniques from scratch. You'll find this book handy if you want to get well-versed with the extensive Power BI ecosystem. You'll start by covering the basics of business intelligence and installing Power BI. You'll then learn the wide range of Power BI features to unlock business insights. As you progress, the book will take you through how to use Power Query to ingest, cleanse, and shape your data, and use Power BI DAX to create simple to complex calculations. You'll also be able to add a variety of interactive visualizations to your reports to bring your data to life. Finally, you'll gain hands-on experience in creating visually stunning reports that speak to business decision makers, and see how you can securely share these reports and collaborate with others. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to create simple, yet effective, BI reports and dashboards using the latest features of Power BI.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits

Summary

In this chapter, we built upon the data model and calculations we created in the previous chapter and learned how to take advantage of powerful features within Power BI. These features included the ability to segment our data into groups and hierarchies. In addition, we learned how to expand, collapse, and drill up and down through hierarchies, as well as how to use row-level security. Next, we learned how additional Power BI features such as Drillthrough, buttons, Q&A, and bookmarks can be used to provide navigational pathways within reports that viewers can use to unlock their own self-service business intelligence insights. Finally, we explored advanced visualization techniques such as Top N filtering, gauges and KPI visualizations, what-if parameters, conditional formatting, quick measures, Report page Tooltips, and the advanced Key influencers visualization. These...