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Tabular Modeling with SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook

You're reading from   Tabular Modeling with SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook Create better operational analytics for your users with these business solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468611
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Derek Wilson Derek Wilson
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Microsoft Analysis Services Tabular Mode FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up a Tabular Mode Environment 3. Tabular Model Building 4. Working in Tabular Models 5. Administration of Tabular Models 6. In-Memory Versus DirectQuery Mode 7. Securing Tabular Models 8. Combining Tabular Models with Excel 9. DAX Syntax and Calculations 10. Working with Dates and Time Intelligence 11. Using Power BI for Analysis

Visualizing the crash data with Power BI

Once you have data connected to Power BI you can create visualizations. Each visualization is designed and built independently. Once the basic visualization is completed you can format it to make it easier to read. Formatting allows you modify settings like showing label values, changing the color of the charts, or changing the title. By creating several visualizations, you can combine them on a report page. In this recipe you will create a stacked bar graph and then format it to change the default settings.

Getting ready

The Visualizations window in Power BI gives you over 26 out of the box graphs that you can use on your data. To begin creating reports you select the type of visualization you want and then the fields used to build the graphic.

How to do it...

  1. Connect to your data source and create a new report.
  2. Select the first icon--Stacked Bar Chart from the Visualizations window:

    How to do it...

  3. A new blank chart is added to the report tab as a tile:

    How to do it...

  4. Select Count_of_Crashes...
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