Microsoft Power BI Cookbook: Gain expertise in Power BI with over 90 hands-on recipes, tips, and use cases

by Greg Deckler, Brett Powell

Overview

The complete everyday reference guide to Power BI, written by an internationally recognized Power BI expert duo, is back with a new and updated edition.
Packed with revised practical recipes, Microsoft Power BI Cookbook, Second Edition, helps you navigate Power BI tools and advanced features. It also demonstrates the use of end-to-end solutions that integrate those features to get the most out of Power BI. With the help of the recipes in this book, you’ll gain advanced design and development insight, practical tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects.

The updated recipes will equip you with everything you need to know to implement evergreen frameworks that will stay relevant as Power BI updates. You’ll familiarize yourself with Power BI development tools and services by going deep into the data connectivity, transformation, modeling, visualization, and analytical capabilities of Power BI. By the end of this book, you’ll make the most of Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M and deliver powerful solutions to common business intelligence challenges.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801811323
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	09/30/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	656
Sales rank:	478,675
File size:	32 MB
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About the Author

Greg Deckler is Vice President of the Microsoft Practice at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a superuser within the Power BI community with over 100,000 messages read, more than 11,000 replies, over 2,300 answers, and more than 75 entries in the Quick Measures Gallery. Greg founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presents at numerous conferences and events, including SQL Saturday, DogFood, and the Dynamic Communities User Group/Power Platform Summit.


Brett Powell is the owner of and business intelligence consultant at Frontline Analytics LLC, a data and analytics research and consulting firm and Microsoft Power BI partner. He has worked with Power BI technologies since they were first introduced as the PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010 and has been a Power BI architect and lead BI consultant for organizations across the retail, manufacturing, and financial services industries. Additionally, Brett has led Boston's Power BI User Group, delivered presentations at technology events such as Power BI World Tour, and maintains the popular Insight Quest Microsoft BI blog.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Configuring Power BI Tools
2. Accessing and Retrieving Data
3. Building a Power BI Data Model
4. Authoring Power BI Reports
5. Working in the Service
6. Getting Serious with Date Intelligence
7. Parameterizing Power BI Solutions
8. Implementing Dynamic User-Based Visibility in Power BI
9. Applying Advanced Analytics and Custom Visuals
10. Administering and Monitoring Power BI
11. Enhancing and Optimizing Existing Power BI Solutions
12. Deploying and Distributing Power BI Content
13. Integrating Power BI with Other Applications