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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference Bring your data to life with the powerful features of Microsoft Power BI

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Product type Course
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789950045
Length 794 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Brett Powell Brett Powell
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Mitchell Pearson Mitchell Pearson
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Brian Knight Brian Knight
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Manuel Quintana Manuel Quintana
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Getting Started with Importing Data Options FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Transformation Strategies 3. Building the Data Model 4. Leveraging DAX 5. Visualizing Data 6. Using a Cloud Deployment with the Power BI Service 7. Planning Power BI Projects 8. Connecting to Sources and Transforming Data with M 9. Designing Import and DirectQuery Data Models 10. Developing DAX Measures and Security Roles 11. Creating and Formatting Power BI Reports 12. Applying Custom Visuals, Animation, and Analytics 13. Designing Power BI Dashboards and Architectures 14. Managing Application Workspaces and Content 15. Managing the On-Premises Data Gateway 16. Deploying the Power BI Report Server 17. Creating Power BI Apps and Content Distribution 18. Administering Power BI for an Organization 19. Scaling with Premium and Analysis Services 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Live report pages


For some users, the self-service data exploration experience provided within Power BI report pages is the most valuable use case of Power BI content. Although a dashboard of tiles may initiate or contribute to an analysis, these users often have more complex and unpredictable analytical needs such that greater flexibility is needed. Additionally, these users are generally much more comfortable and experienced in interacting with Power BI content, such as modifying slicer selections and drilling up and down through hierarchies. 

To provide both the self-service experience of a report page as well as the consolidation benefits of a dashboard, an entire report page can be pinned as a single tile to a dashboard. In the following dashboard for the United States, a live report page of eight visuals has been pinned to supplement the corporate standard KPI tiles:

 

Dashboard with live report page

In this dashboard, the user can leverage the robust filtering options on the sales and...

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