Microsoft Power BI Cookbook - Second Edition: Gain expertise in Power BI with over 90 hands-on recipes, tips, and use cases

Build effective analytical data models, reports, and dashboards using the advanced features of Power BI

Key Features:

• Updated with new recipes on query optimization, aggregation tables, Power BI API, and paginated reports
• Work with recipes across diverse Power BI platforms including the Power BI Service and Mobile Applications
• Implement custom solutions with M and DAX languages through actionable guidance and proven development techniques

Book Description:

Microsoft Power BI is a leading business intelligence and data analytics platform that provides tools and services for deriving insights from data. With revised practical recipes, Microsoft Power BI Cookbook, Second Edition helps you navigate Power BI tools and their advanced features. It also demonstrates the use of end-to-end solutions that integrate those features to get the most out of Power BI. This cookbook provides advanced design and development tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects.

The updated edition enables you to implement evergreen frameworks that will stay relevant as Power BI updates. Get familiar with Power BI development tools and services by going deep into the data connectivity, transformation, modeling, visualization, and analytical capabilities of Power BI. Microsoft Power BI Cookbook, Second Edition enables Power BI's functional programming languages of DAX and M to come alive and deliver powerful solutions to common business intelligence challenges.

What You Will Learn:

• Cleanse, stage, and integrate your data sources with Power Query (M)
• Remove data complexities and provide users with intuitive, self-service BI capabilities
• Build business logic and analysis into your solutions via the DAX programming language and dashboard-ready calculations
• Implement aggregation tables to accelerate query performance over large data sources
• Create and integrate paginated reports
• Understand the differences and implications of DirectQuery, live connections, Import, and Composite model datasets
• Integrate other Microsoft data tools into your Power BI solution

Who this book is for:

This book is for BI professionals who wish to enhance their knowledge of Power BI and the value of the Power BI solutions they deliver to business users. Those who are looking at quick solutions to common problems while using Power BI will also find this book to be an extremely useful resource. Familiarity with Power BI and working with datasets is essential. This book is not for beginners.

Author: Greg Deckler, Brett Powell
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 09/30/2021
Pages: 656
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 1.32d
ISBN: 9781801813044

About the Author
Deckler, Greg: - Greg Deckler is Vice President of Cloud Services at Fusion Alliance and has been a technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active member of the Power BI community.Powell, Brett: - Brett 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.

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