Overview
- Combine ever-popular Excel functionality with Microsoft's cutting-edge Power BI platform
- Sort, clean, analyze, and visualize data using Excel 2016 and Power BI Desktop
- Learn from an experienced instructor and multi-book author
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Building Interactive Reports and Dashboards with Power BI Desktop
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About this book
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
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning Power BI
Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide to Self-Service Data Analytics with Excel 2016 and Power BI Desktop
Authors: Dan Clark
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2577-6
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Apress Access Books, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Dan Clark 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-2577-6Published: 28 February 2017
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVII, 348
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 370 illustrations in colour
Topics: Big Data/Analytics, Knowledge Management, Information Systems and Communication Service