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Beginning Power BI for Business Users
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Beginning Power BI for Business Users

by Paul D. Fuller
October 2023
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
8h 28m
English
Wiley
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INDEX

A

  • AAD (Azure Active Directory), 41–42, 219
  • accessibility, 209
  • accumulated snapshot, as a type of fact, 146
  • Ackoff's pyramid, 20
  • Add Column ribbon, in Power Query, 105
  • adding
    • Card visual, 86–88
    • previous year column, 116–117
    • StateID foreign keys to fact tables, 163–164
    • title text, 86, 87
  • Admin role, 222, 223
  • advanced filtering, 183
  • Advanced Filtering filter, 182
  • aggregated data, handling, 109
  • aggregating values, 27–28
  • AI capabilities, as a benefit of Power BI, 12
  • alerts, as a benefit of Power BI, 12
  • Amazon Redshift, 209
  • analyzing data, 30
  • application programming interface (API), 23
  • Applied Steps pane, 107–108
  • applying changes, 129–131
  • Apps icon, 42
  • arranging data, 28
  • AVERAGE function, 248
  • Azure Active Directory (AAD), 41–42, 219
  • Azure SQL Database, 209

B

  • basic filtering, 183
  • Basic Filtering filter, 182
  • bidirectional filtering, 179–181
  • black banner, in Power BI Service, 45
  • bookmarks
    • about, 195–199
    • personal vs. report, 199–200
  • building blocks, 61–62
  • business-led self-service, 252–253
  • buttons, reports and, 193–194

C

  • CALCULATE function, 249–250
  • calculated columns
    • about, 115–116, 235–236
    • adding previous year column, 116–117
    • creating, 236–240
    • DIVIDE function, 119–120
    • hiding columns, 117
    • LOOKUPVALUE function, 118–119
    • report, 121–122
    • visualizing data, 120–121
  • Card visuals
    • adding, 86–88
    • resizing, 88
  • changing
    • applying changes, 129–131
    • column data type, 112
    • values in columns, 112–113
  • circle arrow, in Power BI Service, 46
  • cleaning
    • data, 27, 122–137
    • date columns, ...
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