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Deliver eye-catching Business Intelligence with Microsoft Power BI Desktop. This new edition has been updated to cover all the latest features, including combo charts, Cartesian charts, trend lines, use of gauges, and more. Also covered are Top-N features, the ability to bin data into groupings and chart the groupings, and new techniques for detecting and handling outlier data points.
You can take data from virtually any source and use it to produce stunning dashboards and compelling reports that will seize your audience’s attention. Slice and dice the data with remarkable ease and then add metrics and KPIs to project the insights that create your competitive advantage. Make raw data into clear, accurate, and interactive information with Microsoft’s free self-service business intelligence tool.
Pro Power BI Desktop shows you how to choose from a wide range of built-in and third-party visualization types so that your message is always enhanced. You’ll be able to deliver those results on the PC, tablets, and smartphones, as well as share results via the cloud. This book helps you save time by preparing the underlying data correctly without needing an IT department to prepare it for you.
What You'll LearnDeliver attention-grabbing information, turning data into insightMash up data from multiple sources into a cleansed and coherent data modelCreate dashboards that help in monitoring key performance indicators of your businessBuild interdependent charts, maps, and tables to deliver visually stunning informationShare business intelligence in the cloud without involving ITDeliver visually stunning and interactive charts, maps, and tablesFind new insights as you chop and tweak your data as never beforeAdapt delivery to mobile devices such as phones and tabletsWho This Book Is ForEveryone from CEOs and Business Intelligence developers to power users and IT managers
You can take data from virtually any source and use it to produce stunning dashboards and compelling reports that will seize your audience’s attention. Slice and dice the data with remarkable ease and then add metrics and KPIs to project the insights that create your competitive advantage. Make raw data into clear, accurate, and interactive information with Microsoft’s free self-service business intelligence tool.
Pro Power BI Desktop shows you how to choose from a wide range of built-in and third-party visualization types so that your message is always enhanced. You’ll be able to deliver those results on the PC, tablets, and smartphones, as well as share results via the cloud. This book helps you save time by preparing the underlying data correctly without needing an IT department to prepare it for you.
What You'll LearnDeliver attention-grabbing information, turning data into insightMash up data from multiple sources into a cleansed and coherent data modelCreate dashboards that help in monitoring key performance indicators of your businessBuild interdependent charts, maps, and tables to deliver visually stunning informationShare business intelligence in the cloud without involving ITDeliver visually stunning and interactive charts, maps, and tablesFind new insights as you chop and tweak your data as never beforeAdapt delivery to mobile devices such as phones and tabletsWho This Book Is ForEveryone from CEOs and Business Intelligence developers to power users and IT managers
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Published December 8, 2017
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March 17, 2018
Very thorough overview of Power BI Desktop. (It actually seems a bit padded out, to be honest.) It covers pretty much everything that you'd want to do with Power BI Desktop, but doesn't really go beyond that, so don't read this looking for a good overview of BI in general, or any of the associated products/tech like anything related to SQL Server or Azure. It's just about the Power BI Desktop tool.
Power BI Desktop is actually a pretty easy tool to pick up on your own, so you might be better off just watching a few videos and playing around with it. But if you want to know everything about it, so you can get the most out of it, then this is a good book to have.
Power BI Desktop is actually a pretty easy tool to pick up on your own, so you might be better off just watching a few videos and playing around with it. But if you want to know everything about it, so you can get the most out of it, then this is a good book to have.
December 30, 2017
Good start, probably the best resource out in print at this time. Helps to have a good knowledge of DAX. I am concerned that this will become stale quickly as Microsoft seems to be making changes monthly to the base program and adding new visualization templates weekly. Will get you started and is deep enough to teach you to create a high functioning dashboard.
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