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Learn Power BI

Learn Power BI

By : Greg Deckler
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Learn Power BI

Learn Power BI

3.5 (8)
By: Greg 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.
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Section 3: The Service

Using report navigation features

In addition to powerful capabilities related to segmenting data for analysis, Power BI also provides mechanisms for navigating between report pages that can also be used as an aid for analysis.

Drillthrough

So far, we have seen how we can break down our data by using groups, hierarchies, and row-level security. Power BI provides another powerful method of breaking down and analyzing data called drillthrough. Drillthrough is a method that's used for segmenting data as well as navigating a report. Drillthrough allows us to connect pages of reports together. A report page can be created that focuses on a particular data entity, such as a division, location, or employee. Users can then right...

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