Beginning Power BI: A Practical Guide to Self-Service Data Analytics with Excel 2016 and Power BI Desktop

by Dan Clark

Overview

Analyze your company’s data quickly and easily using Microsoft’s latest tools. You will learn to build scalable and robust data models to work from, clean and combine different data sources effectively, and create compelling visualizations and share them with your colleagues.

Author Dan Clark takes you through each topic using step-by-step activities and plenty of screen shots to help familiarize you with the tools. This second edition includes new material on advanced uses of Power Query, along with the latest user guidance on the evolving Power BI platform. Beginning Power BI is your hands-on guide to quick, reliable, and valuable data insight.

What You'll Learn

• Simplify data discovery, association, and cleansing
  
• Build solid analytical data models
  
• Create robust interactive data presentations
  
• Combine analytical and geographic data in map-based visualizations
  
• Publish and share dashboards and reports
  

Who This Book Is For

Business analysts, database administrators, developers, and other professionals looking to better understand and communicate with data

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484225776
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	02/28/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Dan Clark is a senior business intelligence (BI)/programming consultant specializing in Microsoft technologies. He is focused on learning new BI/data technologies and on training others how to best implement the technology. Dan has published several books and numerous articles on .NET programming and BI development. He is a regular speaker at various developer/database conferences and user group meetings and enjoys interacting with the Microsoft developer and database communities. In a previous life, he was a physics teacher; he is still inspired by the wonder and awe of studying the universe and figuring out why things behave the way they do.

Table of Contents

Part I: Building Models in Power Pivot

Chapter 1: Introducing Power Pivot

Chapter 2: Importing Data into Power Pivot

Chapter 3: Data Munging with Power Query

Chapter 4: Creating the Data Model

Chapter 5: Creating Calculations with DAX

Chapter 6: Creating Measures with DAX

Chapter 7: Incorporating Time Intelligence

Chapter 8: Data Analysis with Pivote Tables and Charts

Part II: Building Interactive Reports and Dashboards with Power BI Desktop

Chapter 9: Introducing Power BI Desktop

Chapter 10: Creating Reports with Power BI Desktop

Chapter 11: Publishing Reports and Creating Dashboards in the Power BI Portal

Chapter 12: Creating a Complete Solution

Chapter 13: Advanced Topics in Power Query

Chapter 14: Advanced Topics in Power BI

Editorial Reviews

The goal of this book is to expose readers to the various tools in Microsoft’s self-service BI stack, built over Excel 2016, comprising Power Pivot, Power BI Desktop, Power Query, and DAX to enable them to analyze and gain insight into their data. … The book is easy to read and use because of its lucid style. It should interest Excel users looking to enhance their data analysis skills.” (Computing Reviews, August, 2017)

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