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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide Get to grips with Microsoft Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing technologies using this practical guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849688888
Length 350 pages
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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Data Warehouse Design 2. SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional Cube Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Tabular Model Development of SQL Server Analysis Services 4. ETL with Integration Services 5. Master Data Management 6. Data Quality and Data Cleansing 7. Data Mining – Descriptive Models in SSAS 8. Identifying Data Patterns – Predictive Models in SSAS 9. Reporting Services 10. Dashboard Design 11. Power BI 12. Integrating Reports in Applications Index

Power Map


Microsoft recently released a geospatial 3D visualization tool named Power Map. Power Map, previously named GeoFlow, is a data visualization tool that is very powerful because of the correlation of this component with Microsoft Bing Maps. As a result, this tool can visualize geospatial information on a Bing map using charts and graphs, such as using a column chart as a 3D view of facts.

As you are familiar with Power View maps and charts from the previous chapter, you know that Power View maps do not provide 3D visualization on Bing maps. So, the Power Map tool fills that space and performs great visualizations, especially when you want to compare facts based on geographical information.

For working with the examples in this section, you need to download and install Power Map for Excel 2013 from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38395. We also use Excel files with geospatial data samples released by Microsoft. You can download sample files from the code bundle...

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