Beginning Microsoft Power BI

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Analyze company data quickly and easily using Microsoft's powerful tools. Learn to build scalable data models, clean and combine various data sources, and create professional visuals. This hands-on, activity-based guide walks you through analyzing data with Microsoft’s self-service BI tools. Starting with Power Query, you will discover how to source data from multiple origins and effectively clean and shape it before importing into a data model. Using Power BI tabular and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), you will create robust, scalable data models that form the foundation of your analysis. You'll then explore interactive visualizations to gain insights from your data. The journey concludes with lessons on packaging and sharing reports and dashboards with colleagues. With step-by-step activities and numerous screenshots, the author guides you through each topic. This third edition addresses new features in the Power BI platform, including updated chapters on data flows and composite models. This guide is your resource for achieving quick, reliable, and valuable data insights. Key skills include simplifying data discovery, building analytical models, creating interactive presentations, integrating analytical and geographic data in visualizations, and sharing dashboards and reports.