Pro Power BI Desktop

• Main Author: Aspin, Adam (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2018.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Database management.; Database Management.

Deliver eye-catching Business Intelligence with Microsoft Power BI Desktop. This new edition has been updated to cover all the latest features, including combo charts, Cartesian charts, trend lines, use of gauges, and more. Also covered are Top-N features, the ability to bin data into groupings and...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction to Power BI Desktop
• 2. Discovering and Loading File-Based Data with Power BI Desktop
• 3. Loading Data from Databases and Data Warehouses
• 4. Direct Query and Connect Live
• 5. Loading Data from the Web and the Cloud
• 6. Dealing with Datasets
• 7. Data Transformation
• 8. Data Mashup
• 9. Structuring, Managing and Parameterizing Queries
• 10. Creating a Data Model
• 11. Extending the Data Model with Calculated Columns
• 12. Adding Measures to the Data Model
• 13. Analyzing Data over Time
• 14. Table Visuals
• 15. Matrix and Card Visuals
• 16. Charts in Power BI Desktop
• 17. Formatting Charts in Power BI Desktop
• 18. Other Types of Visuals
• 19. Maps in Power BI Desktop
• 20. Filtering Data
• 21. Using Slicers
• 22. Enhancing Dashboards
• 23. PowerBI.com
• 24. Appendix A: Sample Data.