Microsoft Power BI For Dummies

Jack Hyman is the founder and principal of HyerTek, a consulting firm providing IT management and implementation services to government and educational institutions. He manages leading cloud platforms and analytics tools from Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, and others. Jack is author of several business technology titles in the For Dummies series including Microsoft Power Platform For Dummies and Tableau For Dummies.

• Introduction 1Part 1: Put Your BI Thinking Caps On 7Chapter 1: A Crash Course in Data Analytics Terms: Power BI Style 9Chapter 2: The Who, How, and What of Power BI 23Chapter 3: Oh, the Choices: Power BI Versions 37Chapter 4: Power BI: The Highlights 47Part 2: It’s Time to Have a Data Party 63Chapter 5: Preparing Data Sources 65Chapter 6: Getting Data from Dynamic Sources 81Chapter 7: Cleansing, Transforming, and Loading Your Data 97Part 3: The Art and Science of Power BI 121Chapter 8: Crafting the Semantic Model 123Chapter 9: Designing and Deploying Semantic Models 143Chapter 10: Perfecting the Semantic Model 163Chapter 11: Visualizing Data 179Chapter 12: Pumping Out Reports. 209Chapter 13: Diving into Dashboarding 229Chapter 14: Sharing and the Power BI Workspace 247Part 4: Oh, No! There’s a Power BI Programming Language! 267Chapter 15: Digging into DAX 269Chapter 16: Digging Deeper into DAX 285Part 5: Enhancing Your Power BI Experience 307Chapter 17: Making Your Data Shine 309Chapter 18: Extending the Power BI Experience 327Chapter 19: Enhancing Power BI with Fabric and Copilot 349Part 6: The Part of Tens 373Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Optimize DAX Using Power BI 375Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Make Accessible and User-Friendly Reports 385Chapter 22: Ten Useful Power BI Resources 397Index 405