Introduction
Power BI is Microsoft's data analysis and visualization tool. Power BI allows users to create rich reporting, dashboards, and analytics by connecting to one or many data sources. There are several components that make up the Power BI environment. First you connect or manually add data to your report to create a dataset. The dataset is then available to be used for visualizations in the report. Each visualization which includes items, such as graphs, data tables, treemaps, or slicers, are represented in a tile that can be modified and edited independently. Visualizations are added to a page in a report. Each report can have from one to many pages that are connected to the data.
In this section you will install Power BI desktop and connect to your tabular model. Then you will create an initial graph and go through the steps to edit the visualization. Next you will enhance the report by adding more visualizations and a slicer to filter the data. Finally, you will create a...