Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Guide

Chapter 9: Creating Reports

Finally! Yes, in our book about Microsoft's awesome reporting tool, Power BI, it's not until Chapter 9 that we're talking about creating reports!

There's a reason for that: to tell a story with data, you need to have data. Once you have the data, measures, hierarchies, security, and all the other things that go into modeling your data, the storytelling becomes very easy.

Power BI provides an easy-to-use canvas for you to tell your data story. It has a wealth of visualizations that can be added to reports from an easy-to-use application, Power BI Desktop.

Power BI has numerous visuals you can use to tell your story. From tables and matrixes to pie and donut charts, to scatter plots and histograms, odds are that Power ...