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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), Azure Analysis Services, and Power Pivot in Excel and it is also the engine used for reports and datasets published to the Power BI service. In addition, it uses Power Query as its data extraction and transformation engine, ...

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