Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

Key Features

• From connecting to your data sources to developing and deploying immersive, mobile-ready dashboards and visualizations, this book covers it all
• Over 90 hands-on, technical recipes, tips, and use cases from across the Power BI platform including the Power BI Service and Mobile Applications
• Proven development techniques and guidance for implementing custom solutions with DAX and M languages

Book Description

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data.

This book will provide thorough, technical examples of using all primary Power BI tools and features as well as demonstrate high impact end-to-end solutions that leverage and integrate these technologies and services. Get familiar with Power BI development tools and services, go deep into the data connectivity and transformation, modeling, visualization and analytical capabilities of Power BI, and see Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M come alive to deliver powerful solutions to address common, challenging scenarios in business intelligence.

This book will excite and empower you to get more out of Power BI via detailed recipes, advanced design and development tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects.

What you will learn

• Cleanse, stage, and integrate your data sources with Power BI
• Abstract data complexities and provide users with intuitive, self-service BI capabilities
• Build business logic and analysis into your solutions via the DAX programming language and dynamic, dashboard-ready calculations
• Take advantage of the analytics and predictive capabilities of Power BI
• Make your solutions more dynamic and user specific and/or defined including use cases of parameters, functions, and row level security
• Understand the differences and implications of DirectQuery, Live Connections, and Import-Mode Power BI datasets and how to deploy content to the Power BI Service and schedule refresh
• Integrate other Microsoft data tools such as Excel and SQL Server Reporting Services into your Power BI Solution

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Configuring Power Bi Development Tools
Chapter 2. Accessing And Retrieving Data
Chapter 3. Building A Power Bi Data Model
Chapter 4. Authoring Power Bi Reports
Chapter 5. Creating Power Bi Dashboards
Chapter 6. Getting Serious With Date Intelligence
Chapter 7. Parameterizing Power Bi Solutions
Chapter 8. Implementing Dynamic User-Based Visibility In Power Bi
Chapter 9. Applying Advanced Analytics And Custom Visuals
Chapter 10. Developing Solutions For System Monitoring And Administration
Chapter 11. Enhancing And Optimizing Existing Power Bi Solutions
Chapter 12. Deploying And Distributing Power Bi Content
Chapter 13. Integrating Power Bi With Other Applications