October 2023
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
8h 28m
English
Content preview from Beginning Power BI for Business Users
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
INTRODUCTION
As a data analytics engineer, I've loved using Power BI since it was introduced many years ago. But I'm a tech nerd. And many of the experts in Power BI are also geeks like me. But here's the thing—Power BI is meant to be a tool for business users and data analysts. It's intended to be simple enough to get started and see amazing things quickly but sophisticated enough that the information technology (IT) folks can use it as well.
In my years in consulting, I have worked with many clients who are simply business users wanting to learn Power BI. They typically have been Excel gurus who live and die by their spreadsheets. And they still will need those spreadsheets at times, but they know that Power BI will take them where they couldn't go with Excel. But they were stuck.
Their IT departments would give them access to use Power BI. Some of these clients would start with Power BI quickly but get discouraged because they weren't exactly sure how to use it correctly. Some of these clients didn't know how to begin. And some of them took training or read books on Power BI but got overwhelmed by the technical aspects.
Sadly, all the introductory Power BI books that have been published to date are tailored more toward technical individuals than business users. That's where this book comes in.
This book is intended to get you started on your journey with Power BI in a way that teaches you the methods and principles that the IT professionals know but are simplified so that ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.