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Microsoft Power BI For Dummies

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Microsoft Power BI For Dummies by Jack A. Hyman offers a beginner-friendly guide to understanding and utilising Microsoft Power BI for data analysis and visualisation. It covers the basics of connecting to data sources, creating interactive reports, and sharing insights effectively. Perfect for those new to data analysis, it provides clear instructions and practical tips without assuming prior technical knowledge.
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"In Microsoft Power BI for dummies, you'll discover how to explore your data sources, build data models, crunch the numbers, visualize your results, and craft compelling reports that motivate change. Start guiding your company with hard data today!"--[Page 4] of cover.

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Reveal the insights behind your company’s data with Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI allows intuitive access to data that can power intelligent business decisions and insightful strategies. The question is, do you have the Power BI skills to make your organisation’s numbers spill their secrets?

In Microsoft Power BI For Dummies, expert lecturer, consultant, and author Jack Hyman delivers a start-to-finish guide to applying the Power BI platform to your own firm’s data. You’ll discover how to start exploring your data sources, build data models, visualise your results, and create compelling reports that motivate decisive action.

  • Tackle the basics of Microsoft Power BI and, when you’re done with that, move on to advanced functions like accessing data with DAX and app integrations.
  • Guide your organisation’s direction and decisions with rock-solid conclusions based on real-world data.
  • Impress your bosses and confidently lead your direct reports with exciting insights drawn from Power BI’s useful visualisation tools.

It’s one thing for your company to have data at its disposal. It’s another thing entirely to know what to do with it. Microsoft Power BI For Dummies is the straightforward blueprint you need to apply one of the most powerful business intelligence tools on the market to your firm’s existing data.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119824879

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 April 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 185.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 544g

Pages: 416

About the Author

Jack Hyman is Chief Executive Officer of HyerTek, an IT consulting firm specializing in Microsoft’s business platforms. He is Associate Professor in the Computer Information Sciences department at the University of the Cumberlands. He has written several books in the For Dummies series, as well as certification study guides for the Microsoft Azure technology.

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