Microsoft Power BI for dummies / by Jack Hyman
Material type: TextSeries: --For dummiesPublisher: Hoboken, NJ : For Dummies, a Wiley Brand, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: xii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781119824879
- 1119824877
- Microsoft Power BI
- Microsoft Power Business Intelligence for dummies
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Reveal the insights behind your company's data with Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI allows intuitive access to data that can power intelligent business decisions and insightful strategies. The question is, do you have the Power BI skills to make your organization's numbers spill their secrets?
In Microsoft Power BI For Dummies , expert lecturer, consultant, and author Jack Hyman delivers a start-to-finish guide to applying the Power BI platform to your own firm's data. You'll discover how to start exploring your data sources, build data models, visualize your results, and create compelling reports that motivate decisive action.
Tackle the basics of Microsoft Power BI and, when you're done with that, move on to advanced functions like accessing data with DAX and app integrations Guide your organization's direction and decisions with rock-solid conclusions based on real-world data Impress your bosses and confidently lead your direct reports with exciting insights drawn from Power BI's useful visualization toolsIt's one thing for your company to have data at its disposal. It's another thing entirely to know what to do with it. Microsoft Power BI For Dummies is the straightforward blueprint you need to apply one of the most powerful business intelligence tools on the market to your firm's existing data.
"In Microsoft Power BI for dummies, you'll discover how to explore your data sources, build data models, crunch the numbers, visualize your results, and craft compelling reports that motivate change. Start guiding your company with hard data today!"--[Page 4] of cover.
"Microsoft Power BI allows intuitive access to data that can power intelligent business decisions and insightful strategies. The question is, do you have the Power BI skills to make your organization's numbers spill their secrets? In Microsoft Power BI For Dummies, expert lecturer, consultant, and author Jack Hyman delivers a start-to-finish guide to applying the Power BI platform to your own firm's data. You'll discover how to start exploring your data sources, build data models, visualize your results, and create compelling reports that motivate decisive action." -- Provided by publisher.
Includes index.
part 1. Put your BI thinking caps on: A crash course in data analytic terms : Power BI style ; The who, how, and what of Power BI ; Oh, the choices : Power BI versions ; Power BI : the highlights -- part 2. It's time to have a data party: Preparing data sources ; Getting data from dynamic sources ; Cleansing, transforming, and loading your data -- part 3. The art and science of Power BI: Crafting the data model ; Designing and deploying data models ; Perfecting the data model ; Visualizing data ; Pumping out reports ; Diving into dashboarding -- part 4. Oh, no! There's a Power BI programming language!: Digging into DAX ; Fun with DAX functions ; Digging deeper into DAX ; Sharing and the power of BI Workspace -- part 5. Enhancing your Power BI experience: Making your data shine ; Extending the power BI experience -- part 6. The part of tens: Ten ways to optimize DAX using Power BI ; Ten ways to make compelling reports accessible and user-friendly.