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Data Analytics Made Easy

You're reading from   Data Analytics Made Easy Analyze and present data to make informed decisions without writing any code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074155
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrea De Mauro Andrea De Mauro
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What is Data Analytics? 2. Getting Started with KNIME FREE CHAPTER 3. Transforming Data 4. What is Machine Learning? 5. Applying Machine Learning at Work 6. Getting Started with Power BI 7. Visualizing Data Effectively 8. Telling Stories with Data 9. Extending Your Toolbox 10. And now?
11. Useful Resources 12. Other Books You May Enjoy
13. Index

Power BI in a nutshell

Power BI is a business intelligence service offered by Microsoft that enables the creation of online data dashboards. Let's go through its most essential features:

  • Power BI comes with a traditional application software called Power BI Desktop, which you can download and install, for free, on your computer. Power BI Desktop offers the full design functionalities of Power BI: you can use this software to create your dashboards, save them in local files (with the .pbix extension), and then share them with other users, who can, in turn, view and edit your dashboards. To complete this chapter, you will only need to use the Power BI Desktop application.
  • It's important to know that Power BI is primarily offered as a cloud-based service. If you decide you want to use Power BI at scale in your company to leverage corporate data sources and make dashboards available online via browsers or mobile apps (without the need for all users to install Power...
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