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Beginning Power BI with Excel 2013

Self-Service Business Intelligence Using Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query, and Power Map

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  • Understanding your company’s data has never been easier than with Microsoft’s new Power BI package for Excel 2013.
  • Consisting of four powerful tools—Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query and Power Maps—Power BI helps Excel users, business analysts and IT experts work together for maximum business insight.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Building Models in Power Pivot

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introducing Power Pivot

      • Dan Clark
      Pages 3-18
    3. Importing Data into Power Pivot

      • Dan Clark
      Pages 19-51
    4. Creating the Data Model

      • Dan Clark
      Pages 53-70
    5. Creating Calculations with DAX

      • Dan Clark
      Pages 71-86
    6. Creating Measures with DAX

      • Dan Clark
      Pages 87-111
    7. Incorporating Time Intelligence

      • Dan Clark
      Pages 113-132
  3. Building Interactive Reports and Dashboards with Power View

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
  4. Exploring and Presenting Data with Power Query and Power Map

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
    2. Data Discovery with Power Query

      • Dan Clark
      Pages 217-234
    3. Geospatial Analysis with Power Map

      • Dan Clark
      Pages 235-253
    4. Mining Your Data with Excel

      • Dan Clark
      Pages 255-274
    5. Creating a Complete Solution

      • Dan Clark
      Pages 275-294
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 295-300

About this book

Understanding your company’s data has never been easier than with Microsoft’s new Power BI package for Excel 2013. Consisting of four powerful tools—Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query and Power Maps—Power BI makes self-service business intelligence a reality for a wide range of users, bridging the traditional gap between Excel users, business analysts and IT experts and making it easier for everyone to work together to build the data models that can give you game-changing insights into your business.

Beginning Power BI with Excel 2013 guides you step by step through the process of analyzing and visualizing your data. Daniel R. Clark, an expert in BI training and a regular speaker on these topics, takes you through each tool in turn, using hands-on activities to consolidate what you’ve learned in each chapter.

Starting with Power Pivot, you will create robust scalable data models which will serve as the foundation of your data analysis. Once you have mastered creating suitable data models, you will use them to build compelling interactive visualizations in Power View. It’s often necessary to combine data from disparate sources into a data model. Power Query allows you to easily discover, combine, and refine data from a variety of sources, so you can make accurate judgments with all the available information. Geographical awareness is another common requirement of data analysis. Using Power Maps you will create captivating visualizations that map your data in space and time.

Beginning Power BI with Excel 2013 is your practical guide to getting maximum insight from your data, and presenting it with impact.

About the author

Dan Clark is a senior business intelligence (BI)/programming consultant specializing in Microsoft technologies. He is focused on learning new BI/data technologies and on training others how to best implement the technology. Dan has published several books and numerous articles on .NET programming and BI development. He is a regular speaker at various developer/database conferences and user group meetings and enjoys interacting with the Microsoft developer and database communities. In a previous life, he was a physics teacher; he is still inspired by the wonder and awe of studying the universe and figuring out why things behave the way they do. Dan can be reached at Clark.drc@gmail.com.

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