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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

Creating Dataflows

Power BI dataflows are a feature within the Microsoft Power BI service that allows users to transform and combine data from various sources, perform data transformation and cleansing operations, and then store the results in inexpensive Azure Blob Gen2 Storage.

Dataflows also use the Power Query M language and are constructed using a web-based version of Power Query Editor. In effect, dataflows are cloud-based versions of queries that you would otherwise create in Power BI Desktop.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, you will need a Power BI Pro license or trial license. See the Thinking about Licensing recipe from Chapter 1, Installing and Licensing Power BI Tools. Create a new workspace in the Power BI service. This workspace should be a Pro workspace and not a Fabric or Fabric trial workspace. Fabric workspaces include the Dataflows Gen2 capabilities, which are constructed almost identically to dataflows.

In addition, you should complete...

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