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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide. Build dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide. Build dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life

Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana

Ebook
Microsoft Power BI is a cloud-based service that helps you easily visualize and share insights using your organization's data.This book will get you started with business intelligence using the Power BI toolset, covering essential concepts such as installation,designing effective data models, as well as building basic dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life
You will learn how to get your data the way you want – connecting to data sources sources and how to clean your data with the Power BI Query Editor. You will next learn how to properly design your data model to make your data easier to work with.. You will next learn how to properly design your data model to navigate table relationships and build DAX formulas to make your data easier to work with.
Visualizing your data is another key element of this book, and you will learn how to follow proper data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling techniques.
By the end of this book, you will understand how to administer your organization's Power BI environment so deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implemented
  • 1. Getting Started with Importing Data Options
  • 2. Data Transformation Strategies
  • 3. Building the Data Model
  • 4. Leveraging DAX
  • 5. Visualizing Data
  • 6. Digital Storytelling with Power BI
  • 7. Using a Cloud Deployment with the Power BI Service
  • 8. On-Premises Solutions with Power BI Report Server
  • Title: Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide. Build dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life
  • Author: Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana
  • Original title: Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide. Build dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life
  • ISBN: 9781789130928, 9781789130928
  • Date of issue: 2018-07-30
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_14yg
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing