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Beginning Microsoft Power BI

A Practical Guide to Self-Service Data Analytics

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  • © 2020

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Authors:
  1. Dan Clark

    1. Camp Hill, USA

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  • Shows you how to build solid data models as a foundation for generating robust data insights
  • Includes how to sort, clean, analyze, and visualize data in Power BI
  • Teaches you the new functionality added to DAX and the tabular modeling

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introducing Power BI

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 1-20

  3. Importing Data into Power BI Desktop

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 21-46

  4. Data Munging with Power Query

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 47-76

  5. Creating the Data Model

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 77-104

  6. Creating Calculations with DAX

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 105-125

  7. Creating Measures with DAX

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 127-150

  8. Incorporating Time Intelligence

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 151-171

  9. Creating Reports with Power BI Desktop

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 173-209

  10. Publishing Reports and Creating Dashboards in the Power BI Portal

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 211-245

  11. Introducing Power Pivot in Excel

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 247-276

  12. Data Analysis with Pivot Tables and Charts

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 277-304

  13. Creating a Complete Solution

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 305-333

  14. Advanced Topics in Power Query

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 335-354

  15. Advanced Topics in Power BI Desktop

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 355-375

  16. Advanced Topics in Power BI Data Modeling

    • Dan Clark
    Pages 377-402

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 403-411
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About this book

Analyze company data quickly and easily using Microsoft’s powerful data tools. Learn to build scalable and robust data models, clean and combine different data sources effectively, and create compelling and professional visuals.

Beginning Power BI is a hands-on, activity-based guide that takes you through the process of analyzing your data using the tools that that encompass the core of Microsoft’s self-service BI offering. Starting with Power Query, you will learn how to get data from a variety of sources, and see just how easy it is to clean and shape the data prior to importing it into a data model. Using Power BI tabular and the Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), you will learn to create robust scalable data models which will serve as the foundation of your data analysis. From there you will enter the world of compelling interactive visualizations to analyze and gain insight into your data. You will wrap up your Power BI journey by learning how to package and share your reports and dashboards 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 third edition covers the new and evolving features in the Power BI platform and new chapters on data flows and composite models. This book is your hands-on guide to quick, reliable, and valuable data insight.


What You Will 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


Authors and Affiliations

  • Camp Hill, USA

    Dan Clark

About the author

Dan Clark is a senior business intelligence (BI) and programming consultant specializing in Microsoft technologies. He is focused on learning new BI and data technologies and training others  on 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 and database conferences and user group meetings and enjoys interacting with the Microsoft communities. In a previous life, Dan 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. 

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