Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide – Second Edition: Bring your data to life through data modeling, visualization, digital storytelling, and more
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An accessible fast paced introduction to all aspects of Power BI for new or aspiring BI professionals, data analysts, and data visualizers
Key Features
Updated with the latest features in Power BI including Dataflow, AI insights, visuals and row level securityGet faster and more intuitive data insights using Microsoft Power BI and its business intelligence capabilitiesBuild accurate analytical models, reports, and dashboards
Book Description
This revised edition has been fully updated to reflect the latest enhancements to Power BI. It includes a new chapter dedicated to dataflow, and covers all the essential concepts such as installation, designing effective data models, as well as building basic dashboards and visualizations to help you and your organization make better business decisions.
You’ll learn how to obtain data from a variety of sources and clean it using Power BI Query Editor. You’ll then find out how you can design your data model to navigate and explore relationships within it and build DAX formulas to make your data easier to work with. Visualizing your data is a key element in this book, and you’ll get to grips rapidly with data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling techniques.
In addition, you will acquire the skills to build your own dataflows, understand the Common Data Model, and automate data flow refreshes to eradicate data cleansing inefficiency.
This guide will help you understand how to administer your organization’s Power BI environment so that deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implemented.
By the end of this Power BI book, you’ll have a better understanding of how to get the most out of Power BI to perform effective business intelligence.
What you will learn
Connect to data sources using import and DirectQuery optionsUse Query Editor for data transformation and data cleansing processes, including writing M and R scripts and dataflows to do the same in the cloudDesign optimized data models by designing relationships and DAX calculationsDesign effective reports with built-in and custom visualsAdopt Power BI Desktop and Service to implement row-level securityAdminister a Power BI cloud tenant for your organizationUse built-in AI capabilities to enhance Power BI data transformation techniquesDeploy your Power BI desktop files into the Power BI Report Server
Who this book is for
Aspiring business intelligence professionals who want to learn Power BI will find this book useful. If you have a basic understanding of BI concepts and want to learn how to apply them using Microsoft Power BI, this book is for you.
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Publisher : Packt Publishing; 2nd ed. edition (October 30, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 296 pages
ISBN-10 : 1800561571
ISBN-13 : 978-1800561571
Item Weight : 1.13 pounds
Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.62 x 9.25 inches
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Scotticus –
Very good for starters
This is exactly what the title suggests: a Quick Start guide. The book is very helpful at walking you through the steps and giving good examples at what can be accomplished with Power BI. It also opens up the door with suggestions of what else can be accomplished with further research and practice. For the Data Analyst that is looking to get a quick understand of how to use Power BI, I would highly recommend.
j.e. –
Good Content for beginners
The book is exactly what it is advertised as. A quick start. This book is great for beginners and is a great introduction to many of the features of Power BI. The book would also be good for a professional that had worked with Power BI previously but has not in a while.
Jacob W. Jolliff –
Great value
@ this price it beats a Udemy course. Explanations are clear, spelling and grammar are good. You will need a separate pdf file to see screen shots as the kindle version images are too small to view details. So note that you receive a pdf file with all screen shots helping you through examples.Also note:To go through exercises using AI capabilities you will need a Power BI Premium license. A pro license will not allow you to use Microsoft’s Power BI AI features.This book is hot off the press as of this review which makes this an excellent source to learn Power BI.
Elias Sanchez –
Very useful, high quality content. Practical, hand-on approach to Power BI.
Delivery was on time the book looks as advertised.
BJ –
Good for quick start in BI
Good for a quick start in Power BI. I never used BI before and this was perfect.
Glen M. –
Great book for Beginners
Great book for Beginners
Matthew E. Dillon –
Very poorly written exercise examples
Data in some of the examples does not match what is presented in the book. I was able to figure some of it out and reproduce, but not all. I’ve written technical references like this myself and it is CRITICAL to make sure your dataset and the exercise steps and images are in alignment. These aren’t. I’m about 1/3 of the way through this and am beginning to have concerns that I may be wasting my time…
Chebs –
Example not accessible
I am trying to learn with this book but I cannot find way to use the example files. I went on Github where the files are saved and made an account but still cannot find any way to download these files to follow the practice. I don’t know if it’s just me who is struggling with this but I don’t think the book has done a good job to make it clear to avoid users having these problems.
Kilumbu WUNGA –
L’explication est claire et l’apprentissage est aisé !
C. Walker –
This has proven a great way to start the journey into BI in general, but also specifically PowerBI.Technical level is about right for the audience and unlike so many other books of this type, I found very few examples of terminology or specific features used that had not previously been explained.My only criticism is nothing to do with content, it’s the physical printing of the book where all diagrams, screen shots etc. are in black and white, not colour. The impact is that many are rendered close to unreadable in print. I have the downloaded copy which has colour versions of the graphics and it looks great.
Steve –
Trying to teach myself Power BI using this book. All was going well until I got to page 33. Iâve spent an hour trying to figure out why Iâm not getting same results as shown in the book. Pretty certain the instruction process is incorrect and not me. Hope itâs a one off instance. Itâs put me off continuing TBH