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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide The ultimate beginner's guide to data modeling, visualization, digital storytelling, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804613498
Length 330 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Mitchell Pearson Mitchell Pearson
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Devin Knight Devin Knight
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Bradley Schacht Bradley Schacht
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Erin Ostrowsky Erin Ostrowsky
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Gaining Data Literacy with Power BI 2. Connecting to Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Transformation Strategies 4. Building the Data Model 5. Leveraging DAX 6. Visualizing Data 7. Digital Storytelling with Power BI 8. Using a Cloud Deployment with the Power BI Service 9. Data Cleansing in the Cloud with Dataflows 10. On-Premises Solutions with Power BI Report Server 11. Other Books You May Enjoy
12. Index

Usability enhancements

Usability enhancements are those enhancements that can significantly improve the overall user experience when interacting with the data model. In order to ensure a successful handoff and adoption of the work you have done, it is important to not overlook these rather basic improvements.

In this section, we are going to cover the following usability enhancements:

  • Hiding tables and columns
  • Renaming tables and columns
  • Changing the default summarization property
  • Displaying one column but sorting by another
  • Setting the data category of fields
  • Creating hierarchies

Let's begin by considering how to hide tables and columns.

Hiding tables and columns

Some tables are available in the data model simply in a support capacity and would never be used in a report. For example, you may have a table to support many-to-many relationships, weighted allocation, or even dynamic security. Likewise, some columns are necessary for creating relationships in the data model but would...

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