Beginning Power BI: A Practical Guide to Self-Service Data Analytics with Excel 2016 and Power BI Desktop

Clark, Dan

ISBN 10: 1484225767 / ISBN 13: 9781484225769

Published by Apress, 2017

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Synopsis:

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.

Author 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.

What You'll Learn

• Simplify data discovery, association, and cleansing
  
• Build solid analytical data models
  
• Create robust interactive data presentations
  
• Combine analytical and geographic data in map-based visualizations
  
• Publish and share dashboards and reports
  

Who This Book Is For

Business analysts, database administrators, developers, and other professionals looking to better understand and communicate with data

About the Author: Dan Clark is a senior business intelligence (BI)/programming consultant specializing in Microsoft technologies. He is focused on learning new BI/data technologies and on training others how to best implement the technology. Dan has published several books and numerous articles on .NET programming and BI development. He is a regular speaker at various developer/database conferences and user group meetings and enjoys interacting with the Microsoft developer and database communities. In a previous life, he was a physics teacher; he is still inspired by the wonder and awe of studying the universe and figuring out why things behave the way they do.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Beginning Power BI: A Practical Guide to ...
Publisher: Apress
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Edition: 2nd Edition