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Learn Power BI

By : Gregory Deckler
Book Image

Learn Power BI

By: Gregory Deckler

Overview of this book

To succeed in today's transforming business world, organizations need business intelligence capabilities to make smarter decisions faster than ever before. This Power BI book is an entry-level guide that will get you up and running with data modeling, visualization, and analytical techniques from scratch. You'll find this book handy if you want to get well-versed with the extensive Power BI ecosystem. You'll start by covering the basics of business intelligence and installing Power BI. You'll then learn the wide range of Power BI features to unlock business insights. As you progress, the book will take you through how to use Power Query to ingest, cleanse, and shape your data, and use Power BI DAX to create simple to complex calculations. You'll also be able to add a variety of interactive visualizations to your reports to bring your data to life. Finally, you'll gain hands-on experience in creating visually stunning reports that speak to business decision makers, and see how you can securely share these reports and collaborate with others. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to create simple, yet effective, BI reports and dashboards using the latest features of Power BI.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits

Advanced visualization techniques

So far, we have seen how we can segment our data using Groups and Hierarchies, as well as how to use navigational features such as Drillthrough, Q&A, and Bookmarks to uncover and highlight insights into our data. But Power BI still has more to offer with regards to visual features that also allow us to highlight information that is of particular interest or analyze our data in unique ways.

Top N filtering

Continuing with the example scenario we introduced in Chapter 3, Connecting and Shaping Data, Pam has been learning a lot about how to segment her data and using navigational features to highlight insights. However, Pam wants to do more to visually show important information. To this end...