Design, create and manage robust Power BI solutions to gain meaningful business insightsKey Features\nMaster all the dashboarding and reporting features of Microsoft Power BI\nCombine data from multiple sources, create stunning visualizations and publish your reports across multiple platforms\nA comprehensive guide with real-world use cases and examples demonstrating how you can get the best out of Microsoft Power BI\nBook DescriptionThis book is intended for business intelligence professionals responsible for the design and development of Power BI content as well as managers, architects and administrators who oversee Power BI projects and deployments. The chapters flow from the planning of a Power BI project through the development and distribution of content to the administration of Power BI for an organization.\nBI developers will learn how to create sustainable and impactful Power BI datasets, reports, and dashboards. This includes connecting to data sources, shaping and enhancing source data, and developing an analytical data model. Additionally, top report and dashboard design practices are described using features such as Bookmarks and the Power KPI visual. \nBI managers will learn how Power BI's tools work together such as with the On-premises data gateway and how content can be staged and securely distributed via Apps. Additionally, both the Power BI Report Server and Power BI Premium are reviewed.\nBy the end of this book, you will be confident in creating effective charts, tables, reports or dashboards for any kind of data using the tools and techniques in Microsoft PowerBI.What you will learn\nBuild efficient data retrieval and transformation processes with the Power Query M Language\nDesign scalable, user-friendly DirectQuery and Import Data Models\nDevelop visually rich, immersive, and interactive reports and dashboards\nMaintain version control and stage deployments across development, test, and production environments\nManage and monitor the Power BI Service and the On-premises data gateway\nDevelop a fully on-premise solution with the Power BI Report Server\nScale up a Power BI solution via Power BI Premium capacity and migration to Azure Analysis Services or SQL Server Analysis Services\nWho This Book Is ForBusiness Intelligence professionals and existing Power BI users looking to master Power BI for all their data visualization and dashboarding needs will find this book to be useful. While understanding of the basic BI concepts is required, some exposure to Microsoft Power BI will be helpful.Table of Contents\nPlanning Power BI Projects\nConnecting to Sources and Transforming Data with M\nDesigning Import and DirectQuery Data Models\nDeveloping DAX Measures and Security Roles\nCreating and Formatting Power BI Reports\nIntegrating Custom Visuals, Animation and Analytics into Power BI Reports\nDesigning Power BI Dashboards and Multi-Dashboard Architectures\nManaging Application Workspaces and Power BI Content\nManaging the On-Premises Data Gateway and Data Refresh Configurations\nDeploying Power BI On-Premises with the Power BI Report Server\nCreating Power BI Apps and Content Distribution\nAdministering Power BI for an Organization\nScaling Up with Power BI Premium and SQL Server Analysis Services\n

Analyze your company’s data quickly and easily using Microsoft’s latest tools. You will learn to build scalable and robust data models to work from, clean and combine different data sources effectively, and create compelling visualizations and share them with your colleagues.\nAuthor Dan Clark takes you through each topic using step-by-step activities and plenty of screen shots to help familiarize you with the tools. This second edition includes new material on advanced uses of Power Query, along with the latest user guidance on the evolving Power BI platform. Beginning Power BI is your hands-on guide to quick, reliable, and valuable data insight.\nWhat You'll Learn\n\nSimplify data discovery, association, and cleansing\n\nBuild solid analytical data models\n\nCreate robust interactive data presentations\n\nCombine analytical and geographic data in map-based visualizations\n\nPublish and share dashboards and reports\n\n\nWho This Book Is For\nBusiness analysts, database administrators, developers, and other professionals looking to better understand and communicate with data\n

Key Features\n\nFrom connecting to your data sources to developing and deploying immersive, mobile-ready dashboards and visualizations, this book covers it all\nOver 90 hands-on, technical recipes, tips, and use cases from across the Power BI platform including the Power BI Service and Mobile Applications\nProven development techniques and guidance for implementing custom solutions with DAX and M languages\nBook DescriptionMicrosoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data.\nThis 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.\nThis 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\nCleanse, stage, and integrate your data sources with Power BI\nAbstract data complexities and provide users with intuitive, self-service BI capabilities\nBuild business logic and analysis into your solutions via the DAX programming language and dynamic, dashboard-ready calculations\nTake advantage of the analytics and predictive capabilities of Power BI\nMake your solutions more dynamic and user specific and/or defined including use cases of parameters, functions, and row level security\nUnderstand 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 refreshes\nIntegrate other Microsoft data tools such as Excel and SQL Server Reporting Services into your Power BI solution\nAbout the AuthorBrett 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 SQL Server 2008R2 PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010. He has contributed to the design and development of Microsoft and Power BI solutions of diverse scale and complexity across the retail, manufacturing, financial, and services industries. Brett regularly blogs and shares technical papers regarding the latest MSBI and Power BI features and development techniques and patterns at Insight Quest. He is also an organizer of the Boston BI User Group.Table of Contents\nConfiguring Your Power BI Development Tools\nAccessing and Retrieving Data\nBuilding a Power BI Data Model\nAuthoring Power BI Reports\nCreating Power BI Dashboards\nGetting Serious with Date Intelligence\nParameterizing Your Power BI Solutions\nImplementing Dynamic User-Based Visibility in Power BI\nApplying Advanced Analytics and Custom Visuals\nDeveloping Solutions for System Monitoring and Administration\nEnhancing and Optimizing Existing Power BI Solutions\nDeploying and Distributing Power BI Content\nIntegrating Power BI with other Applications\n

Now more than ever, content must be visual if it is to travel far. Readers everywhere are overwhelmed with a flow of data, news, and text. Visuals can cut through the noise and make it easier for readers to recognize and recall information. Yet many researchers were never taught how to present their work visually.This book details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations. Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts. Through more than five hundred examples, he demonstrates the do’s and don’ts of data visualization, the principles of visual perception, and how to make subjective style decisions around a chart’s design. Schwabish surveys more than eighty visualization types, from histograms to horizon charts, ridgeline plots to choropleth maps, and explains how each has its place in the visual toolkit. It might seem intimidating, but everyone can learn how to create compelling, effective data visualizations. This book will guide you as you define your audience and goals, choose the graph that best fits for your data, and clearly communicate your message.

Written by a Microsoft MVP and revised annually, this insightful guide introduces Microsoft Power BI - a cloud-hosted, business intelligence and analytics platform that democratizes and opens BI to everyone. Information workers will learn how to connect to popular cloud services to derive instant insights, create interactive reports and dashboards, and view them in the browser and on the go. Data analysts will discover how to integrate and transform data from virtually everywhere and then implement sophisticated self-service models. The book teaches BI and IT pros how to establish a trustworthy environment that promotes collaboration and how to implement Power BI-centric solutions for descriptive, real-time, and predictive analytics. Developers will find how to integrate custom applications with Power BI, embed reports, and implement custom visuals to present effectively any data. Ideal for both experienced BI practitioners or beginners, this book doesn't assume any prior data analytics experience. It's designed as an easy-to-follow guide that introduces new concepts with step-by-step instructions and hands-on demos. The book page at prologika.com/applied-microsoft-power-bi provides sample chapters, source code, and discussion forum.What's Inside:Power BI for Information Workers\n\nGet instant insights from cloud services and files Explore data with interactive reports Assemble dashboards with a few clicks Access BI content on mobile devices\nPower BI for Data Analysts\nImport data from virtually anywhere Cleanse, transform and shape data Create sophisticated data models Implement business calculations Get insights from data Apply machine learning\nPower BI for Pros\nEnable sharing and collaboration Deploy to cloud and on premises Implement organizational BI solutions\nPower BI for Developers\nAutomate Power BI Report-enable custom applications Build custom visuals and much more ...\n

Effective visualization is the best way to communicate information from the increasingly large and complex datasets in the natural and social sciences. But with the increasing power of visualization software today, scientists, engineers, and business analysts often have to navigate a bewildering array of visualization choices and options.\nThis practical book takes you through many commonly encountered visualization problems, and it provides guidelines on how to turn large datasets into clear and compelling figures. What visualization type is best for the story you want to tell? How do you make informative figures that are visually pleasing? Author Claus O. Wilke teaches you the elements most critical to successful data visualization.\n\nExplore the basic concepts of color as a tool to highlight, distinguish, or represent a value\nUnderstand the importance of redundant coding to ensure you provide key information in multiple ways\nUse the book’s visualizations directory, a graphical guide to commonly used types of data visualizations\nGet extensive examples of good and bad figures\nLearn how to use figures in a document or report and how employ them effectively to tell a compelling story\n

A leading data visualization expert explores the negative―and positive―influences that charts have on our perception of truth.\nToday, public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers. While charts, infographics, and diagrams can make us smarter, they can also deceive―intentionally or unintentionally. To be informed citizens, we must all be able to decode and use the visual information that politicians, journalists, and even our employers present us with each day. Demystifying an essential new literacy for our data-driven world, How Charts Lie examines contemporary examples ranging from election result infographics to global GDP maps and box office record charts, as well as an updated afterword on the graphics of the COVID-19 pandemic. 175 illustrations

Updated: September 2019 Version"Excellent hands-on introduction to Power Bi""Great way to learn Power BI"If you want to learn Business Intelligence software, if you are looking for specific BI tool, or if you are trying to decide on your next new BI solution, you will love Business Intelligence Clinic.\nOne dataset, multiple solutions: Each book is about a different BI software, and you will follow step-by-step instructions to create a professional sales dashboard with the same friendly dataset.\nThe BI Clinic series is suitable for everyone - managers, analysts, students... - It will help you compare different Business Intelligence tools, learn the basics, and select the best for your project, company, customers, or personal needs.\nIn this Create and Learn book, Power BI – Business Intelligence Clinic with more than 300 images Black & White, you will you go through important topics of Microsoft Power BI Desktop - a Free BI tool from Microsoft. You will learn how to install Power BI Desktop, get data, model your data, work with visuals and reports, create a sales dashboard, and share your work with others. \nWe will not go into deep theories as the purpose of this book and all Create and Learn material is to make the most of your time and to learn by doing.\nYou will follow step-by-step instructions to create a professional sales dashboard, and eight warm-up dashboards to help you rapidly increase your Power BI knowledge.\nI hope this book will help you to start your journey in the Business Intelligence world and give you the right tools to start building professional reports and dashboards using Microsoft Power BI.\nThank you for creating and learning.\nRoger F. Silva\nIf you want to acquire the color version, use this link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1794499199\nCheck the Business Intelligence Clinic series\nOne dataset, multiple solutions:\nPower BI - Business Intelligence Clinic\nExcel - Business Intelligence Clinic\nTableau - Business Intelligence Clinic