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Microsoft Power BI Recipes [Video]

By : Drew Mery
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Microsoft Power BI Recipes [Video]

By: Drew Mery

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Microsoft Power BI is a suite of tools to analyze your data and extract business insights from it through building interactive dashboards. This video course is your guide to getting the most out of Power BI and will help you solve any problems you might come across while using it.This tutorial contains practical recipes on the various tasks that you can do with Microsoft Power BI—from gathering your data to analyzing it. </span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">You will start with the basic installation and configuration of Power BI Desktop, and go on to connect your data sources with it. You’ll transform and get your data ready for analysis, and create effective data views using it. Then, you will see how you can create stunning reports and dashboards in Power BI.</span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Finally, the course also contains some handy recipes on troubleshooting various issues in Power BI. We’ll ensure that you have the tricks of the trade in mastering Power BI to get effective visual analytics.</span></p> <h2><span class="sugar_field">Style and Approach</span></h2> <p><span class="sugar_field"><span id="trade_selling_points_c" class="sugar_field">This course is a comprehensive tutorial that covers a wide range of information on Business Intelligence and gives you actionable business insights using Power BI.</span></span></p>
Table of Contents (4 chapters)
Chapter 1
Get and Prep Data like a Super Nerd
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Section 3
Connecting to Common Data sources
Discover the ease and power of connecting to common data sources in the business world, such as Excel files, folders, SQL Server, and the web. - Select Get Data from the Desktop and choose your data source - Select the table(s) you want in your Power BI model - Select Load for instant load or Edit for Query Editor