Learn Power BI - Second Edition
This is the code repository for Learn Power BI - Second Edition, published by Packt.
A comprehensive, step-by-step guide for beginners to learn real-world business intelligence
What is this book about?
To succeed in today's transforming business world, organizations need business intelligence capabilities to make smarter decisions faster than ever before. This updated second edition of Learn Power BI takes you on a journey of data exploration and discovery, using Microsoft Power BI to ingest, cleanse, and organize data in order to unlock key business insights that can then be shared with others.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Get up and running quickly with Power BI
- Understand and plan your business intelligence projects
- Connect to and transform data using Power Query
- Create data models optimized for analysis and reporting
- Perform simple and complex DAX calculations to enhance analysis
If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!
Instructions and Navigations
All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.
The code will look like the following:
Calendar = CALENDAR( DATE(2017 ,1 ,1), DATE(2019 ,12 ,31)
Following is what you need for this book: If you’re an IT manager, data analyst, or BI user new to using Power BI for solving business intelligence problems, this book is for you. You’ll also find this book helpful if you want to migrate from other BI tools to create powerful and interactive dashboards. No experience of working with Power BI is expected..
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-15).
Software and Hardware List
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Power BI Desktop | Windows |
| 2 | Pwer BI Service | Windows |
| 3 | Data Gateway | Windows |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
Code in Action
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Get to Know the Author
Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active member of the Columbus Ohio IT community, having founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presented at many conferences and events throughout the country. An active blogger and community member interested in helping new users of Power BI, Greg actively participates in the Power BI community, having authored over 180 Power BI Quick Measures Gallery submissions and over 5,000 authored solutions to community questions. Greg is Vice President of cloud services at Fusion Alliance, a regional consulting firm, and assists customers in gaining competitive advantage from the cloud and cloud first technologies such as Power BI.
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