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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide. Bring your data to life through data modeling, visualization, digital storytelling, and more - Second Edition

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide. Bring your data to life through data modeling, visualization, digital storytelling, and more - Second Edition

Devin Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Bradley Schacht, Erin Ostrowsky

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This revised edition has been fully updated to reflect the latest enhancements to Power BI. It includes a new chapter dedicated to dataflow, and covers all the essential concepts such as installation, designing effective data models, as well as building basic dashboards and visualizations to help you and your organization make better business decisions.

You’ll learn how to obtain data from a variety of sources and clean it using Power BI Query Editor. You’ll then find out how you can design your data model to navigate and explore relationships within it and build DAX formulas to make your data easier to work with. Visualizing your data is a key element in this book, and you’ll get to grips rapidly with data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling techniques.

In addition, you will acquire the skills to build your own dataflows, understand the Common Data Model, and automate data flow refreshes to eradicate data cleansing inefficiency.

This guide will help you understand how to administer your organization's Power BI environment so that deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implemented.

By the end of this Power BI book, you’ll have a better understanding of how to get the most out of Power BI to perform effective business intelligence.
  • 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. Data Cleansing in the Cloud with Dataflows
  • 9. On-Premises Solutions with Power BI Report Server
  • Title: Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide. Bring your data to life through data modeling, visualization, digital storytelling, and more - Second Edition
  • Author: Devin Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Bradley Schacht, Erin Ostrowsky
  • Original title: Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide. Bring your data to life through data modeling, visualization, digital storytelling, and more - Second Edition
  • ISBN: 9781800569942, 9781800569942
  • Date of issue: 2020-10-30
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_2ags
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing