Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide: Build dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life

Name: Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide: Build dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life
Rating: 3.3333332538604736 (3 reviews)

Devin Knight · Brian Knight · Mitchell Pearson · Manuel Quintana

Jul 2018 · Packt Publishing Ltd

3.3

3 reviews

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202

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Bring your data to life with Power BIKey Features

Get to grips with the fundamentals of Microsoft Power BI and its Business Intelligence capabilities
Build accurate analytical models, reports and dashboards
Get faster and more intuitive insights from your data using Microsoft Power BI

Book DescriptionMicrosoft Power BI is a cloud-based service that helps you easily visualize and share insights using your organization's data.This book will get you started with business intelligence using the Power BI toolset, covering essential concepts such as installation,designing effective data models, as well as building basic dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life You will learn how to get your data the way you want – connecting to data sources sources and how to clean your data with the Power BI Query Editor. You will next learn how to properly design your data model to make your data easier to work with.. You will next learn how to properly design your data model to navigate table relationships and build DAX formulas to make your data easier to work with. Visualizing your data is another key element of this book, and you will learn how to follow proper data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling techniques. By the end of this book, you will understand how to administer your organization's Power BI environment so deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implementedWhat you will learn

Connect to data sources using both import and DirectQuery options
Use the Query Editor to apply data transformations and data cleansing processes, including learning how to write M and R scripts
Design optimized data models by designing relationships and DAX calculations
Leverage built-in and custom visuals to design effective reports
Use the Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service to implement Row Level Security on your model
Administer a Power BI cloud tenant for your organization
Deploy your Power BI Desktop files into the Power BI Report Server

Who this book is for

This book is for aspiring Business Intelligence professionals who want to get up and running with Microsoft Power BI. If you have a basic understanding of BI concepts and want to learn how to apply them using Microsoft Power BI, this book is for you.

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3.3

3 reviews

Anil Das

November 27, 2021

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About the author

Brian Knight is the owner and founder of Pragmatic Works, and is a serial entrepreneur, starting up other companies. Brian is a contributing columnist at several technical magazines. He is the author of 16 technical books. Brian has spoken at conferences like PASS Summit, SQL Connections, TechEd, SQLSaturdays, and Code Camps. He has received a number of awards from the State of Florida, governor, and press, including the Business Ambassador Award (Governor) and Top CEO (Jacksonville Magazine). His blog can be found at Pragmatic Works website.

Mitchell Pearson has worked as a Data Platform Consultant and Trainer for the last 8 years. Mitchell has authored books on SQL Server, Power BI and the Power Platform. Data Platform experience includes designing and implementing enterprise level Business Intelligence solutions with the Microsoft SQL Server stack (T-SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), the Power Platform and Microsoft Azure. Mitchell is very active in the community: Running the local Power BI User Group, presenting at user groups locally and virtually, and creating YouTube videos for MitchellSQL

Manuel Quintana is a Training Content Manager at Pragmatic Works. Previously he was senior manager working in the hotel industry. He joined the Pragmatic Works team in 2014 with no knowledge in the Business Intelligence space but now speaks at SQL Saturday's and SQL Server User Groups locally and virtually. He also teaches various BI technologies to many different fortune 500 companies on behalf of Pragmatic Works. Since 2014 he has called Jacksonville home and before that Orlando but he was born on the island of Puerto Rico and loves to go back and visit his family. When he isn't working on creating new content for Pragmatic Works you can probably find him playing board games or watching competitive soccer matches.

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