Chapter 1: Where and How to Use R and Python Scripts in Power BI
Power BI is Microsoft's flagship self-service business intelligence product. It consists of a set of on-premises applications and cloud-based services that help organizations integrate, transform, and analyze data from a wide variety of source systems through a user-friendly interface.
The platform is not limited to data visualization. Power BI is much more than this, when you consider that its analytics engine (Vertipaq) is the same as SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and Azure Analysis Services. It also uses Power Query as its data extraction and transformation engine, which we find in both Analysis Services and Excel. The engine comes with a very powerful and versatile formula ...
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