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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide
Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide: Bring your data to life through data modeling, visualization, digital storytelling, and more , Second Edition

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Profile Icon Devin Knight Profile Icon Erin Ostrowsky Profile Icon Mitchell Pearson Profile Icon Schacht
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  • Updated with the latest features in Power BI including Dataflow, AI insights, visuals and row level security
  • Get faster and more intuitive data insights using Microsoft Power BI and its business intelligence capabilities
  • Build accurate analytical models, reports, and dashboards

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This revised edition has been fully updated to reflect the latest enhancements to Power BI. It includes a new chapter dedicated to dataflow, and covers all the essential concepts such as installation, designing effective data models, as well as building basic dashboards and visualizations to help you and your organization make better business decisions. You’ll learn how to obtain data from a variety of sources and clean it using Power BI Query Editor. You’ll then find out how you can design your data model to navigate and explore relationships within it and build DAX formulas to make your data easier to work with. Visualizing your data is a key element in this book, and you’ll get to grips rapidly with data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling techniques. In addition, you will acquire the skills to build your own dataflows, understand the Common Data Model, and automate data flow refreshes to eradicate data cleansing inefficiency. This guide will help you understand how to administer your organization's Power BI environment so that deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implemented. By the end of this Power BI book, you’ll have a better understanding of how to get the most out of Power BI to perform effective business intelligence.

Who is this book for?

Aspiring business intelligence professionals who want to learn Power BI will find this book useful. 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.

What you will learn

  • Connect to data sources using import and DirectQuery options
  • Use Query Editor for data transformation and data cleansing processes, including writing M and R scripts and dataflows to do the same in the cloud
  • Design optimized data models by designing relationships and DAX calculations
  • Design effective reports with built-in and custom visuals
  • Adopt Power BI Desktop and Service to implement row-level security
  • Administer a Power BI cloud tenant for your organization
  • Use built-in AI capabilities to enhance Power BI data transformation techniques
  • Deploy your Power BI desktop files into the Power BI Report Server

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Jacob W. Jolliff Dec 14, 2020
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@ this price it beats a Udemy course. Explanations are clear, spelling and grammar are good. You will need a separate pdf file to see screen shots as the kindle version images are too small to view details. So note that you receive a pdf file with all screen shots helping you through examples.Also note:To go through exercises using AI capabilities you will need a Power BI Premium license. A pro license will not allow you to use Microsoft's Power BI AI features.This book is hot off the press as of this review which makes this an excellent source to learn Power BI.
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Thurman May 28, 2021
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Great
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Adam S. Dec 11, 2020
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Power BI can be intimidating for those not familiar with the offering. Devin and team have you covered in this pretty complete book. This takes you on the journey of getting some data, massaging it and then getting into a report in the Power BI service to share with others.I like that it also covers areas of the product that aren't covered that well in other spots like some of the AI pieces that aren't as widely used.Power BI continues to change, and new features come about, but this book will still get you started with the fundamentals and let you get up and running.
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Glen M. Jan 05, 2021
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Great book for Beginners
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Kindle Customer Jul 24, 2022
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This is a good first book for Power BI. After you've read it, you'll probably know whether Power BI is for you or not.
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