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B. Kettner, F. GeislerPro Serverless Data Handling with Microsoft Azurehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8067-6_9

9. Power BI

Benjamin Kettner1   and Frank Geisler2
(1)
Berlin, Germany
(2)
Lüdinghausen, Germany
 
One of the most important things when working with data is to visualize it. If you have a chart that is based on your data, that data is far more easily understood than when you just look at the raw numbers. One of the most common ways to visualize data is to load it into Excel and create charts there. There are many disadvantages to this approach, however, as follows:
  • Data cannot be refreshed automatically. Of course, it is possible to bind Excel to a ...

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