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Mastering Microsoft Power BI

You're reading from   Mastering Microsoft Power BI Expert techniques for effective data analytics and business intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788297233
Length 638 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Brett Powell Brett Powell
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning Power BI Projects FREE CHAPTER 2. Connecting to Sources and Transforming Data with M 3. Designing Import and DirectQuery Data Models 4. Developing DAX Measures and Security Roles 5. Creating and Formatting Power BI Reports 6. Applying Custom Visuals, Animation, and Analytics 7. Designing Power BI Dashboards and Architectures 8. Managing Application Workspaces and Content 9. Managing the On-Premises Data Gateway 10. Deploying the Power BI Report Server 11. Creating Power BI Apps and Content Distribution 12. Administering Power BI for an Organization 13. Scaling with Premium and Analysis Services 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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:

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