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Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence suite designed to simplify the path from data to insights. This skill starts with the general end-to-end workflow using by Power BI, then conveys tactics for loading and working with your data to enable analysis. Creating, deploying, and securing your reports and dashboards is covered as well. In addition, you’ll learn powerful techniques specialized to Power BI, such as creating calculated measures with Data Analysis eXpressions (DAX), manipulating data with the powerful M language, and taking advantage of services like free text Q & A.

What You'll Learn

  • The core functions and workflows of Power BI Desktop
  • General mechanics of building visualizations and dashboards
  • The interactions between Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service
  • Most common use cases
  • The basics of the DAX formula language
  • The basics of the M language
  • Best practices in dashboard and visualization development
  • Best practices in data user management
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    From Pluralsight
    Hours 35
    Instructors Stacia Misner Varga, Rory Neary, Eugene Meidinger, Tim Boles, Matthew Calderwood, Jim Kay, Alexander Arvidsson, Andrew McSwiggan
    Language English
    Subjects IT & Networking

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