To get the most out of this book

After downloading and installing the Power BI Desktop, you will be able to follow the majority of the examples in this book. By subscribing to the Power BI Pro license, you can follow all examples in this book. There are also supplementary files you can download to follow the book's examples.

Download the example code files

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Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://static.packt-cdn.com/downloads/9781800561571_ColorImages.pdf

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. For example; "Start by connecting to the FIPS_CountyName.txt file that is found in the book files using the Text/CSV connector."

A block of code is set as follows:

Month Year = RIGHT("0" & 'Date (Order)'[Month Number of Year], 2)

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

package 'mice' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked.

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, also appear in the text like this. For example: To now build a set of report visuals on this example, you can click Close & Apply under the Home ribbon.

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.