You're reading from Learn Power BI A comprehensive, step-by-step guide for beginners to learn real-world business intelligence

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801811958

Length 458 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

DAX

Tools

Power BI

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Author (1):

Greg Deckler

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1:The Basics

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Business Intelligence and Power BI FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Planning Projects with Power BI

4. Section 2:The Desktop

5. Chapter 3: Up and Running with Power BI Desktop

6. Chapter 4: Connecting to and Transforming Data

7. Chapter 5: Creating Data Models and Calculations

8. Chapter 6: Unlocking Insights

9. Chapter 7: Creating the Final Report

10. Section 3:The Service

11. Chapter 8: Publishing and Sharing

12. Chapter 9: Using Reports in the Power BI Service

13. Chapter 10: Understanding Dashboards, Apps, Goals, and Security

14. Chapter 11: Refreshing Content

15. Section 4:The Future

16. Chapter 12: Deploying, Governing, and Adopting Power BI

17. Chapter 13: Putting Your Knowledge to Use

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Creating visualizations

Human beings are visual creatures. In the same way that a picture is worth a thousand words, so too can visualizations of data convey information and insights in a manner that is just not possible otherwise.

Creating your first visualization

Follow these steps to create your first visualization:

Begin by clicking on the Report view in the Views area.
In the Fields pane, if your Calendar table is not already expanded so that you can see the column names in the table, simply click the > icon to the left of the table name to expand the table and show the columns.
Start by clicking on the IsWorkDay column and drag and drop this column onto the canvas. Instantly, you have a clustered column chart whose y axis goes from 0 to 800. If you hover your mouse over the column, you will see the text IsWorkDay 782 displayed. This popup is called a Tooltip, and this indicates that there are 782 combined working days (Monday-Friday) in the years 2017...