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Power BI has been around since 2014, and before that, there was growing popularity using the “Power” features within Excel to analyze our organization’s data. Years later, Power BI finds itself on the top tier of data visualization tools, and if you go by the Gartner report, it is the number 1 tool! Power BI gives users the capability to import data from a variety of different sources. From there, we can take advantage of features to clean and massage the data to our needs. Once this is done, we can then model and leverage visuals to deliver impactful messages to our end users by sharing reports. In this chapter, we will explore who should be using Power BI, how to subscribe to the service, and get a brief overview of the desktop tool.
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© 2020 Mitchell Pearson, Brian Knight, Devin Knight, Manuel Quintana
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Pearson, M., Knight, B., Knight, D., Quintana, M. (2020). Introduction to Power BI. In: Pro Microsoft Power Platform. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6008-1_16
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