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Mastering Microsoft Power BI. Expert techniques to create interactive insights for effective data analytics and business intelligence - Second Edition

Mastering Microsoft Power BI. Expert techniques to create interactive insights for effective data analytics and business intelligence - Second Edition

Greg Deckler, Brett Powell, Leon Gordon

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Mastering Microsoft Power BI, Second Edition, provides an advanced understanding of Power BI to get the most out of your data and maximize business intelligence. This updated edition walks through each essential phase and component of Power BI, and explores the latest, most impactful Power BI features.

Using best practices and working code examples, you will connect to data sources, shape and enhance source data, and develop analytical data models. You will also learn how to apply custom visuals, implement new DAX commands and paginated SSRS-style reports, manage application workspaces and metadata, and understand how content can be staged and securely distributed via Power BI apps. Furthermore, you will explore top report and interactive dashboard design practices using features such as bookmarks and the Power KPI visual, alongside the latest capabilities of Power BI mobile applications and self-service BI techniques. Additionally, important management and administration topics are covered, including application lifecycle management via Power BI pipelines, the on-premises data gateway, and Power BI Premium capacity.

By the end of this Power BI book, you will be confident in creating sustainable and impactful charts, tables, reports, and dashboards with any kind of data using Microsoft Power BI.
  • 1. Planning Power BI Projects
  • 2. Preparing Data sources
  • 3. Connecting to Sources and Transforming Data with M
  • 4. Designing Import, DirectQuery, and Composite Data Models
  • 5. Developing DAX Measures and Security Roles
  • 6. Planning Power BI Reports
  • 7. Creating and Formatting Visualizations
  • 8. Applying Advanced Analytics
  • 9. Designing Dashboards
  • 10. Managing Workspaces and Content
  • 11. Managing the On-Premises Data Gateway
  • 12. Deploying Paginated Reports
  • 13. Creating Power BI Apps and Content Distribution
  • 14. Administering Power BI for an Organization
  • 15. Building Enterprise BI with Power BI Premium
  • Title: Mastering Microsoft Power BI. Expert techniques to create interactive insights for effective data analytics and business intelligence - Second Edition
  • Author: Greg Deckler, Brett Powell, Leon Gordon
  • Original title: Mastering Microsoft Power BI. Expert techniques to create interactive insights for effective data analytics and business intelligence - Second Edition
  • ISBN: 9781801818193, 9781801818193
  • Date of issue: 2022-06-30
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_2t71
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing