September 2022
Beginner to intermediate
307 pages
8h
English
Content preview from Learning Microsoft Power BI
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Chapter 1. Intro to Power BI
You’re a data person. You understand your data. You know how spreadsheets work. But there’s so much data to process, and your spreadsheets aren’t cutting it.
You need a way to visualize the data and share it with business users so that they can see the analytics, understand the data as you do, and even manipulate the visualizations with little to no training.
If that’s why you’re looking at this book, you made the right move. Microsoft Power BI is exactly what you need. This book will show you how to get up to speed quickly—so quickly that you’ll be building and publishing reports that will wow your colleagues and make your mom proud.
Microsoft Power BI is a data analytics and visualization tool powerful enough for the most demanding data scientists but accessible enough for everyday use by anyone needing to get more from their data.
In the beginning, back when life was simpler (in 2011), Power BI was just a simple piece of desktop software. But it isn’t anymore. It’s an entire business intelligence ecosystem that can fit into multiple diverse technology stacks.
This chapter introduces Microsoft Power BI, discusses the entire Power BI family of products, provides an overview of how Power BI works, and looks at what distinguishes it from other similar tools. By the end of this chapter, you’ll:
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Know what components fit in the Power BI ecosystem and why they’re important.
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Learn the history of Microsoft’s business intelligence work to learn how that ...
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