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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Cookbook Convert raw data into business insights with updated techniques, use cases, and best practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835464274
Length 598 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Greg Deckler Greg Deckler
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Brett Powell Brett Powell
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Licensing Power BI Tools FREE CHAPTER 2. Accessing, Retrieving, and Transforming Data 3. Building a Power BI Semantic Model 4. Authoring Power BI Reports 5. Working in the Power BI Service 6. Getting Serious About Date Intelligence 7. Parameterizing Power BI Solutions 8. Implementing Dynamic User-Based Visibility in Power BI 9. Applying Advanced Analytics and Custom Visuals 10. Enhancing and Optimizing Existing Power BI Solutions 11. Deploying and Distributing Power BI Content 12. Integrating Power BI with Other Applications 13. Working with Premium and Microsoft Fabric 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index

Enriching Content with Custom Visuals and Quick Insights

Custom visuals for Power BI can be reviewed and downloaded from AppSource to provide additional features and options beyond those supported by the standard visuals of Power BI Desktop. Over 300 custom visuals are currently available in AppSource, with many of these having been developed by Microsoft to address common needs, such as the bullet, histogram, and Gantt charts. Other custom visuals available in AppSource have been developed by third parties but validated for security by Microsoft, with these visuals having unique and powerful capabilities, such as flow map network visualization and the interactive visuals developed by ZoomCharts. In addition to custom visuals, Quick Insights can be used in the Power BI service and Power BI Desktop to apply advanced analytics algorithms against semantic models to extract insights, such as trends or relationships, and rapidly generate new visualizations for use in reports and dashboards...

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