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Learn Power BI

Learn Power BI: A beginner's guide to developing interactive business intelligence solutions using Microsoft Power BI

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Key benefits

  • Create effective storytelling reports by implementing simple-to-intermediate Power BI features
  • Develop powerful analytical models to extract key insights for changing business needs
  • Build, publish, and share impressive dashboards for your organization

Description

To succeed in today's transforming business world, organizations need business intelligence capabilities to make smarter decisions faster than ever before. This Power BI book is an entry-level guide that will get you up and running with data modeling, visualization, and analytical techniques from scratch. You'll find this book handy if you want to get well-versed with the extensive Power BI ecosystem. You'll start by covering the basics of business intelligence and installing Power BI. You'll then learn the wide range of Power BI features to unlock business insights. As you progress, the book will take you through how to use Power Query to ingest, cleanse, and shape your data, and use Power BI DAX to create simple to complex calculations. You'll also be able to add a variety of interactive visualizations to your reports to bring your data to life. Finally, you'll gain hands-on experience in creating visually stunning reports that speak to business decision makers, and see how you can securely share these reports and collaborate with others. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to create simple, yet effective, BI reports and dashboards using the latest features of Power BI.

Who is this book for?

If you’re an IT manager, data analyst, or BI user new to using Power BI for solving business intelligence problems, this book is for you. You’ll also find this book useful if you want to migrate from other BI tools to create powerful and interactive dashboards. No experience of working with Power BI is expected.

What you will learn

  • Explore the different features of Power BI to create interactive dashboards
  • Use the Query Editor to import and transform data
  • Perform simple and complex DAX calculations to enhance analysis
  • Discover business insights and tell a story with your data using Power BI
  • Explore data and learn to manage datasets, dataflows, and data gateways
  • Use workspaces to collaborate with others and publish your reports

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Table of Contents

14 Chapters
Section 1: The Basics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Introduction to Business Intelligence and Power BI Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: The Desktop Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Up and Running with Power BI Desktop Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Connecting and Shaping Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Data Models and Calculations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Unlocking Insights Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating the Final Report Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: The Service Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Publishing and Sharing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Reports in the Service Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Understanding Dashboards, Apps, and Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Data Gateways and Refreshing Datasets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Cameron Havens Mar 30, 2022
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Great content that is a great intersection of in-depth content and easy-to-understand concepts! Highly recommended.
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Imke Feldmann Jan 21, 2020
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This is a great introduction into the Power BI universe.It is structured as a walkthrough of the major features and comes with a lot of exercise files that allow you to follow along the practical examples.But if you are in hurry and want to get an overview quickly, you can simply skip the exercises and still get a good understanding what makes Power BI so special and what to watch out when starting to create solutions.
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Mankind Oct 20, 2020
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So far after Chapter 2, details of the book do not seem to match up well with the book examples, as if nobody actually reviewed the material checking for accuracy. Reviewers did not seem to thoroughly go through the book and work through the examples for accuracy.I am able to work through the examples, but needed to use my own curiosity with the program on many of the examples to accomplish the goal.
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I was a bit puzzled (my fault probably) because the title gave me the impression that it would address users that have some familiarity with BI or have played a bit with it. I was able to ... follow until page 100. Then the DAX expressions became lengthy (as in really lengthy). As I am learning (struggling) with DAX, many 18+ lines expressions were very intimidating. I put is aside for a while at page 150.The author discusses about why a report (output) isn't accurate and how to solve it, but I was never able to understand clearly where was the problem to fix. The publishers, Packt, have a great customer services if you find a typo for an instruction that is not 100% accurate.In essence, to really enjoy this book you should have worked by yourselves with PowerBI for a number of months and have "some level" of expertise with DAX. My 10 cents...
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