Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference: Bring your data to life with the powerful features of Microsoft Power BI

by Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson

Overview

Design, develop, and master efficient Power BI solutions for impactful business insights

Key Features:

• Get to grips with the fundamentals of Microsoft Power BI
• Combine data from multiple sources, create visuals, and publish reports across platforms
• Understand Power BI concepts with real-world use cases

Book Description:

Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference Guide gets you started with business intelligence by showing you how to install the Power BI toolset, design effective data models, and build basic dashboards and visualizations that make your data come to life.

In this Learning Path, you will learn to create powerful interactive reports by visualizing your data and learn visualization styles, tips and tricks to bring your data to life. You will be able to administer your organization's Power BI environment to create and share dashboards. You will also be able to streamline deployment by implementing security and regular data refreshes.

Next, you will delve deeper into the nuances of Power BI and handling projects. You will get acquainted with planning a Power BI project, development, and distribution of content, and deployment. You will learn to connect and extract data from various sources to create robust datasets, reports, and dashboards. Additionally, you will learn how to format reports and apply custom visuals, animation and analytics to further refine your data.

By the end of this Learning Path, you will learn to implement the various Power BI tools such as on-premises gateway together along with staging and securely distributing content via apps.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

• Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide by Devin Knight et al.

• Mastering Microsoft Power BI by Brett Powell

What You Will Learn:

• Connect to data sources using both import and DirectQuery options
• Leverage built-in and custom visuals to design effective reports
• Administer a Power BI cloud tenant for your organization
• Deploy your Power BI Desktop files into the Power BI Report Server
• Build efficient data retrieval and transformation processes

Who this book is for:

Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference Guide is for those who want to learn and use the Power BI features to extract maximum information and make intelligent decisions that boost their business. If you have a basic understanding of BI concepts and want to learn how to apply them using Microsoft Power BI, then Learning Path is for you. It consists of real-world examples on Power BI and goes deep into the technical issues, covers additional protocols, and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789950045
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	12/21/2018
Pages:	794
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.58(d)

About the Author

Brian Knight is the owner and founder of Pragmatic Works, and is a serial entrepreneur, starting up other companies. Brian is a contributing columnist at several technical magazines. He is the author of 16 technical books. Brian has spoken at conferences like PASS Summit, SQL Connections, TechEd, SQLSaturdays, and Code Camps. He has received a number of awards from the State of Florida, governor, and press, including the Business Ambassador Award (Governor) and Top CEO (Jacksonville Magazine). His blog can be found at Pragmatic Works website.

Mitchell Pearson has worked as a Data Platform Consultant and Trainer for the last 8 years. Mitchell has authored books on SQL Server, Power BI and the Power Platform. Data Platform experience includes designing and implementing enterprise level Business Intelligence solutions with the Microsoft SQL Server stack (T-SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), the Power Platform and Microsoft Azure.Mitchell is very active in the community: Running the local Power BI User Group, presenting at user groups locally and virtually, and creating YouTube videos for MitchellSQL

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Importing Data Options
2. Data Transformation Strategies
3. Building the Data Model
4. Leveraging DAX
5. Visualizing Data
6. Using a Cloud Deployment with the Power BI Service
7. Planning Power BI Projects
8. Connecting to Sources and Transforming Data with M
9. Designing Import and DirectQuery Data Models
10. Developing DAX Measures and Security Roles
11. Creating and Formatting Power BI Reports
12. Applying Custom Visuals, Animation, and Analytics
13. Designing Power BI Dashboards and Architectures
14. Managing Application Workspaces and Content
15. Managing the On-Premises Data Gateway
16. Deploying the Power BI Report Server
17. Creating Power BI Apps and Content Distribution
18. Administering Power BI for an Organization
19. Scaling with Premium and Analysis Services