Overview of this book
<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Are you wasting time on compiling data from multiple sources instead of analyzing data? Are you relying on your Tech team to develop custom reports and dashboards? Power BI is a self-service business intelligence tool that reduces your dependency on the IT team to create reports and dashboards. Power BI is used to get insights from the data, saving your cost and time. <br />This course aims to equip you with BI tools to make better business decisions and create accurate reports and dashboards in just few minutes. This course is specifically designed to give you hands-on experience of Power BI with more of a focus on practical applications in business environments. You’ll walk through Power BI, end to end, starting from how to connect to and import your data, author reports using Power BI Desktop, and publish those reports to the Power BI service.</span></p>
<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">By taking this course, you’ll build a solid ground in business intelligence and will be able to create real-time reports and dashboards in minutes.</span></p>
<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">All the code and supporting files for this course are available on Github at <a href="https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-Data-Visualization-with-Microsoft-Power-BI" target="_new">https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-Data-Visualization-with-Microsoft-Power-BI</a></span></p>
<h1><span class="sugar_field">Style and Approach</span></h1>
<p><span class="sugar_field"><span id="trade_selling_points_c" class="sugar_field">The course is divided into sections, and in each section, you’ll explore a functionality of Power BI. After each section, you’ll practice by creating a report with a given data source. Throughout the course, we’ll analyze the data and try to solve a certain business problem using interactive visualization.</span></span></p>
