3. Processing and visualizing data

In the previous chapters, you were introduced to Azure Synapse Analytics and Synapse Studio. Azure Synapse Analytics offers a lot of features that are flexible and highly scalable. Some of the extensibility features of Azure Synapse Analytics are the ability to use the modern data warehouse approach to serve meaningful reports and a data source for machine learning.

There are many ways to process and visualize data using Azure and the wider set of tools offered by Microsoft. This book will focus on using Power BI as a tool to create reports and dashboards. Power BI offers a wide range of products and services. This chapter will take a look at using Power BI Desktop on Windows to create meaningful dashboards as well as using Power BI workspaces to host and share published reports.

This book will also give you an introduction to the artificial intelligence and machine learning ecosystem within Azure and Microsoft. We will tackle a specific...