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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

Questions

As an activity, try to answer the following questions on your own:

  • What Power BI feature allows the report author to preset elements such as colors and font sizes?
  • What are the three preparation steps that are taken before creating final report pages?
  • What feature keeps the settings for slicers consistent across pages?
  • What type of visual can display the current value of a metric and the trend of that metric and track that metric against a goal?
  • What two features of Power BI were used to allow report viewers to reset the slicers on a page?
  • What DAX function can be used to determine whether a column has a single value?
  • What data categorization type can be used to display SVG graphics?
  • What Power BI feature allows the ad hoc entry of information into the data model?
  • What two Analytics features were used on the report pages?
  • What report and data elements can be hidden from...