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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

By : Devin Knight, Knight, Mitchell Pearson , Manuel Quintana
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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

3.8 (10)
By: Devin Knight, Knight, Mitchell Pearson , Manuel Quintana

Overview of this book

Microsoft 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 implemented
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Visualizing trend data

When we use the term Trend Data, we are talking about displaying and comparing values over time. Power BI gives us many options in this category, each with their own focus. The idea for each of the visuals, though, is to draw attention to the total value across a length of time. Let's create a new report page and call it Trend Data, and dive right in to see what the differences are between the following options:

  • Line and Area Charts
  • Combo Charts
  • Ribbon Charts
  • Waterfall and Funnel Charts

Line and Area charts

The Line chart is the most basic of our options when it comes to looking at data over time. The Area chart and Stacked Area chart are based on the line chart; the difference is that the area...

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