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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

Finishing up

Even though Pam has finished building her report, she still needs to test the report and clean up some loose ends. 

Testing

Pam decides to work through an example scenario to see how the report performs. To perform this test, do the following:

  1. Start on the Executive Summary page. Here, we can see that the overall utilization is good and above our goal. All of the branches are above our target utilization. However, one Division, in particular, is noticeably below the average. This is the 3001 Management division. Let's investigate this Division further to see what is driving down utilization.
  2. In the %Utilization by Division visual, right-click on the 3001 Management column and choose Drillthrough and...