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 newly revised and expanded edition of Learn Power BI covers all of the latest features and interface changes and takes you through the fundamentals of business intelligence projects, how to deploy, adopt, and govern Power BI within your organization, and how to leverage your knowledge in the marketplace and broader ecosystem that is Power BI. As you progress, you will learn how to ingest, cleanse, and transform your data into stunning visualizations, reports, and dashboards that speak to business decision-makers.
By the end of this Power BI book, you will be fully prepared to be the data analysis hero of your organization – or even start a new career as a business intelligence professional.
publication date
2022-02-18
what you will learn
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
Discover business insights and create professional reports
Collaborate via Power BI dashboards, apps, goals, and scorecards
Deploy and govern Power BI, including using deployment pipelines
key features
Learn simple through to advanced Power BI features in a clear, concise way using real-world examples * Develop powerful analytical models and reports that extract key business insights * Publish, share and collaborate on impressive reports, dashboards, apps, and goals
approach
Learn Power BI gets you up and running quickly, explaining all of the key concepts around data wrangling, modeling, analysis, visualization, collaboration, deployment, adoption, and administration. From business users to data analysts, this step-by-step guide will accelerate your learning and understanding of Power BI allowing you to unlock the insights your organization needs to succeed.
audience
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.
short description
Enter the world of self-service business intelligence and become the data hero in your organization, or build a promising new data career. In this second edition, you’ll learn how to cleanse data, build data models, and use the advanced analysis capabilities of Power BI to create business value by unlocking key insights contained in your data.
subtitle
A comprehensive, step-by-step guide for beginners to learn real-world business intelligence
keywords
data visualization, business intelligence guidebook, business intelligence and anlytics, Power BI books, Microsoft business intelligence, Microsoft PowerBI
Product ISBN
9781801811958
