Deliver eye-catching and insightful business intelligence with Microsoft Power BI Desktop. This new edition has been updated to cover all the latest features of Microsoft''s continually evolving visualization product. New in this edition is help with storytelling-adapted to PCs, tablets, and smartphones-and the building of a data narrative. You will find coverage of templates and JSON style sheets, data model annotations, and the use of composite data sources. Also provided is an introduction to incorporating Python visuals and the much awaited Decomposition Tree visual.
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Table of Contents1. Discovering and Loading Data with Power BI Desktop
2. Discovering and Loading File-Based Data with Power BI Desktop3. Discovering and Loading File-Based Data with Power BI Desktop
4. DirectQuery and Connect Live5. Loading Data from the Web and the Cloud6. Loading Data from Other Data Sources7. Structuring Imported Data
8. Data Transformation and Cleansing
9. Restructuring Data
10. Complex Data Loads
11. Organizing, Managing, and Parameterizing Queries
12. The M Language13. Creating a Data Model14. 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. Third-Party Visuals
20. Maps in Power BI Desktop
21. Filtering Data
22. Using Slicers
23. Enhancing Dashboards
24. Advanced Dashboarding Techniques
25. Appendix A: Sample Data
